 I like I'm gonna try to do this every show and have a positive story. This is kind of a fun story So in in South Carolina, I think this is a South Carolina Farmer a farm on a plot of land is just planted the first The first GMO trees. These are trees that both grow faster produce better wood for lumber in a much shorter period of time because they grow faster and Suck in more co2 than normal trees This is an amazing product, you know, assuming it works It's this is kind of a first example in the wild of these trees being planted developed in Silicon Valley by a Silicon Valley bio tech company These are GMO trees in, you know, they're being planted I guess You know, it's a they're planning 5,000 of these trees. They're modified papalars P O P L A R S papalars And and they they they're keeping track of them. They come from two different lines of cloned and modified Trees of the purposes of research there. They have different names different each each clone gets, you know series of clones gets a different name And and part of the research is to is to follow these but This is pretty amazing the goal of the company is both to provide farmers with Better trees and and quicker ability to quicker get lumber off of the trees So a profit motive and at the same time Dramatically increase the suction of co2 out of the atmosphere This is the kind of examples that I love of trying to find ways where we can reduce co2 emissions And at the same time make money Reduce, you know, not even reduce co2 emissions Not reduce co2 emissions, but just increase the amount of co2 we suck out and Taking the sucking out of the co2 and turning it into something that we can actually make money off of in these popular trees One way in which this can be done and it's super exciting It turns out and I don't know the exact mechanism by which this work But it turns out that these trees made it from lab to being planted in the ground in record time They managed to found a loophole in the law in the regulatory environment that allowed them to go very very quickly Because generally genetically modified plants take forever to get approval for example There's a team of scientists who has genetically engineered a blight resistant chestnut tree And I believe that John Allison is involved in this project He's in in returning chestnut trees to the southeast Chestnut trees used to be the dominant tree in the southeast and I think John Allison is involved in this effort Anyway, scientists have genetically engineered a blight resistant chestnut tree They died out died out because of some parasite. Well, this is resistant to that parasite And it's a very similar method to these these other trees, but They are being held up by the regulators and they've been waiting for decisions in 2020 since 2020 Another engineered apple a bioengineered apple Grown on a small scale in Washington state Now has finally grown took several years to be approved These popular trees found I don't know some kind of Some kind of loophole in the regulations and managed somehow to to get approved very very quickly I think it's these kind of things that are super exciting. It's these kind of things that make me Optimistic about the future Science or in technology applying science and and solving human problems, which is what technology? innovation does in ingenuity does Keeps chugging ahead. It keeps moving ahead That the you know, I think we're gonna see over the next 20 years super exciting things and in Biology of plants and fruits and food and all of that We're gonna see super exciting things in human longevity in cancer treatment and heart disease and all these things that will allow us to live longer The science is moving forward and one could only really imagine If we didn't have all the regulatory burden of regulators weren't holding all this up And of course he is an example where the science is not just producing better trees But also solving or if there it is a problem at least addressing what people believe is a problem of too much CO2 Okay, just plant more of these trees and we solve that problem this related to Alex's thing There is a fascinating article about this and I know many of you will resist reading it because it's where it published But the reality is this publication publishes a lot of good stuff Now I'm gonna get a bunch of people unsubscribing and that's the New York Times So it's called living carbon is the name of the company and it was published. I think published today Yo yesterday in the New York Times And it's it lays out the environmentalists attacking this that lays out the story about One of the things they're gonna have to do with this grove of trees is protect it Because it's likely that some environmentalist organizations are gonna come in and try to uproot the trees or burn them down or destroy them Because they're so manical about anti-gmo So they're actually gonna have to protect these trees and the New York Times gives a very objective. I think a very objective presentation of the story So, yeah And and they make the point of all their hang-ups in terms of regulation, you know They also point out who you know GMO can be dangerous and so on but that's okay. You can read it You can come to your own Own conclusion They say while outright destruction of genetically engineered trees have dwindled Thanks in part to tougher enforcement of laws against acts of eco-terrorism The trees still prompt unease in the forestry and environmental worlds major organizations that certify sustainable forests ban engineered to trees from forests to get their approval Some also prohibited member companies from planting engineered trees anyway to date The only country where large numbers of genetically engineered trees are known to be implanted is Guess which country allows for massive numbers of genetically engineered trees to be planted And this is why this is why they might they might in spite of their political system overtake us one day in terms of you know economic growth and that is China China doesn't have all these hang-ups doesn't have it China doesn't have all these you know crazy Insane irrational Environmental regulations so in China they're building new cup pop plants. They're building hydroelectric dams like crazy and the planting genetically engineered trees We should be too Anyway, I thought that was a fascinating story really really cool And I hope you did too Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iran book show comm slash support I go to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow Please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get announcement when we go live and for you those of you Who are ready subscribers and those of you who ready supporters of the show? Thank you. I very much appreciate it