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Dude, are we breeding franken-kelp in 2025?? 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥 do y’all think we should be genetically modifying organisms and releasing them to help species adapt to climate change in the wild? Lmk in the comments, and also feel free to suggest any video ideas :))) 🪴🌿🌊

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Franken-kelp is crazy, right? I just posted a recap of the research I did on bees in case you missed my earlier thread :) https://farcaster.xyz/newtp/0x79fb8f3f

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Im loving the pro-GMO comments. I heard this fact: it would only take a kelp farm the size of Texas to massively start reducing atmospheric carbon. Super-kelp would super charge that. LFG!

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Kelp is magical. Definitely deserves the attention it’s getting!

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Is cross breeding plants really genetic modification though or is it just basically horticulture/aquaculture? To me that sort of thing is only concerning when they're doing stuff like making plants resistant to a poison chemical so they can spray it on there.

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Wonder how these kelps impact the clownfish schools during those conditions that cause their shrinking… 🤯

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i think it's something we should know how to do, but we should get pollution down first

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With the potential benefits; I think we definitely should💯

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I think the fraken-kelp phrasing implies a heavy bias against this but like everything in the world all of this comes down to context. What are the plans for the kelp? What is the deployment strategy? Is it actually a real concern of this adaptation getting out or is it nebulously bad? Will climate pressures force this adoption or force extinction risk? Additionally where is the funding for the research coming from an are there commercial interests involved in making this an industrially harvestable crop? Basically saying we made GMO kelp doesn't really mean much on its own apart from being a cool fact. All that said I love the content and don't want to discourage you but rather share with you a frame that might provide interesting rabbit holes to dig into to add more context to the content (although it might make it perform worse so you do you 😁)

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Ooh that’s a tough one…but we already create other genetically modified food. If this is what sustains our species, marine biodiversity, and climate, I would be “for” this.

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Franken-kelp in 2025 is WILD. Nature’s getting a software update 😭🌱

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thankful for the fun and insights science posts. science corner science walk and talk. science and share it!

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