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Ben Goldfarb

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  1. “Take a step back for a minute. First of all, what's the connection between the permafrost and climate change? Like, how can a It's a grassland steppe With some fluffy furry animals, stop climate change.”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “That part of the world was so rich in grass and in large animals at that time. It's got lots of sort of organic matter, which has lots of carbon in it, in fact, more than like the entire output of the United States right now.”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, Crazy people, yeah, totally yet. I was excited to write the piece, and then the other thing about this project that was really compelling is that it's not that these guys were only just romantic about bringing the ice age back to this huge stretch of the earth. Their primary motivation for doing it is to, as a climate change mitigation strategy, which is to say that the Arctic is warming very fast and under the surface in the Arctic is what's called the permafrost, this ice that has been there. For in some cases, tens of thousands of years”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So, when I landed on the website and I see that these guys are trying to rewild all or a great part of northern Siberia and Alaska and the Canadian Yukon with this Ice Age grassland biome and that they want to put woolly mammoths there, you know, I had the same reaction that everyone listening to this has, right? Which is like, what?”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Is really more broadly about what motivates seemingly crazy ideas, moving them from the lab to the field, quite literally in this case, through marketing and narrative, which is where we end and begin the conversation.”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “And do use the power of narrative to drive great feats of change, including engineering. This has been a signature theme for me in forming the identity of the ASICs and Z podcast and the conversation that follows is one that takes place among three tech and science editors, including our former colleague Hannah, who is also a host on this podcast for four years.”

    2022-02-19 · a16z Podcast · Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source