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#116 Selling out the West (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Transgentic Trees Are Growing Fast

The idea is that faster growth means faster take up carbon dioxide, and therefore that's going to slow down climber change. The firms say genetically enhanced poplars grew more than one point five times faster than unmodified ones in lab trials. But it sounds to me like what they tried to do was create a really impressive invasive species. As if we don't have a tragic invasive species problem on virtually every continent.

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