Plants are amazing machines — for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chory is working to amplify this special ability: with her colleagues at the Salk Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, she's creating plants that can store more carbon, deeper underground, for hundreds of years. Learn more about how these supercharged plants could help slow climate change. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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For everyone arguing about climate change, let’s focus on pollution. I dont want oil or plastic in the water
They’re not mutually exclusive goals
@Ned Mononymous
Climate change requires 10000 different changes like banning hair spray
Stopping pollution requires another energy alternative away from oil and stopping the production of plastic
Its impossible to support nuclear power if climate change supporters argue about it.
Meanwhile the oil/plastic is already in the fucking food and in our bodies. It’s a fucking stupid argument and only support oil/plastic
This research is stunning!!
I hope we can get good results on this matter.
Isn’t science the coolest thing ever ?!
Can you imagine if this old lady wasn’t a scientist how boring and stagnant she could be .
It feels like I’m looking at a rockstar .
What about the subArctic? I understand it’s getting warmer. This is such a great idea!! It doesn’t need to be crop plants, just something that will thrive from the first….
Its like my grandma became a scientist to make her plants save her grandkids
this could save our generation and the future. i just want to thank all the people related to the research and those who are trying to highlight it.. “thanks a lot for trying to save us.”
A truly inspiring woman. I do hope her study produces the results she hopes for and even if it doesn’t she will still inspire a lot of people to do better
I was just talking about this the other day… is YouTube listening through my phone?
Hummmmm…
Certainly!
The return of the killer tomatoes?
Thank you. I surround myself and my home with plants that clear my energy continuously.
Feed me, Seymour
Glad I clicked on this one
This makes me hopeful! Great work.
Eye opening
it’s easier to imagine supercharged plants than the end of capitalism
Triffids it is then…
Supercharger Have A Bad Fuel Economy, They Should Turbocharged The Plant Instead Of Using Supercharger.
Wonder if we could find the DNA of plants from dinosaur days in those living.
You don’t necessarily want the CO2 to forever stay locked up. It being rapidly growing food for animals would also work.
It wouldn’t be bad if we could help the Earth be once again lush with life like it was in the distant past.
The older ecosystems would need a different kind of plant as their root.
Ok I’m willing to edit some crops on my free time, can I get a link to the research?
Also where do I buy a CRISPR editing type machine?