The co-founder of Colossal Biosciences makes the climate case for bringing back extinct species like the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Colossal say de-extinction through gene editing techniques could have positive impacts for conservation and improving biodiversity. But the environment has changed completely since mammoths roamed the earth, so we’ll examine how realistic those climate claims are.
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Podcast transcripts available on Substack
Ben Lamm, co-founder Colossal Biosciences
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com
Maddie Drury, Series Producer
Transcriptions available: https://solvingforclimate.substack.com/
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers'
Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com
Maddie Drury, Series Producer
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