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Viewpoint: Will Biden and the ‘progressive left’ muster independence to embrace agricultural gene editing and its carbon-capture potential?

Viewpoint: Will Biden and the ‘progressive left’ muster independence to embrace agricultural gene editing and its carbon-capture potential?

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Carbon capture has often been touted as an alternative to dealing with climate change that does not involve laying waste to the fossil fuels industry with the attendant misery inflicted on consumers. Whether it is developing power plants that capture carbon dioxide instead of belching it into the atmosphere or finding ways to suck carbon dioxide out of the air, such as by planting trees or through more exotic methods such as Project Vesta’s “green sand” approach , carbon capture holds a great deal of promise.

MIT Technology Review recently related another carbon capture project that recruits agriculture for the task of fighting climate change.

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In 2023, seeing many of his liberal allies involuntarily retired to the private sector, Biden could declare, “The era of the Green New Deal is over.” Then he could rescind his executive orders that have placed a boot on the neck of the fossil fuel companies and pivot toward encouraging carbon capture, including the idea of turning food crops into carbon sinks.

The progressive Left will not be happy with anything that does not destroy the fossil fuel industry. The anti-GMO crowd will be especially irate. But Biden, because of his advanced age, is not likely to run for president successfully again. That fact will be oddly liberating to a man who has sought the presidency for decades only to acquire it in the winter of his life.

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