Ben Lamm: Would de-extincting species benefit the planet?

January 6
32 mins

Episode Description

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


Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers'

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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