Ben Lamm

And there's lots of smart people doing like fragmentation, doing biobanking and all that stuff.

But if the vast majority of the earth body of water is changing due to us, well, then we got to help.

We got to help.

We have an opportunity and I'd argue a moral responsibility to step in, right?

And so, but think about this.

25 years ago, there wasn't someone that said, I need to go get an understanding in genome engineering, computational biology and marine biology, right?

That thin diagram didn't exist.

Right.

But it probably will exist tomorrow if we want to save corals.

Yeah.

If coral reefs get wiped out, what would happen?

Would that destroy everything?

It's pretty bad.

I don't want to give the wrong stat, but a large percentage of marine life lives between 30 and 60 feet around coral reefs.

The vast majority of the ocean is pretty empty, absent photoplankton and other microorganisms.

When you think about macroecosystems, most of them are around those things.

So they're critical to, you know, healthy coral reef is critical to the entire food supply chain.

Would it be possible to create those from scratch or would you need something?

Yeah, I think you can engineer.

We have not done it.