Why Do We Need White Bio?
If we look at the civilization humanity has built over the past two centuries from the simple perspective of carbon, one remarkably clear pattern emerges. We have continuously brought carbon that had been sleeping underground up to the surface. We mined coal, extracted oil, and produced natural gas. We burned them to obtain energy. With the carbon contained in petroleum, we made plastics, fibers, lubricants, solvents, and countless chemical products. That carbon built modern civilization. It powered factories, built cities, and moved cars and airplanes. Humanity achieved a level of prosperity and productivity that would once have been difficult to imagine. But hidden within this enormous success was one problem that we did not pay much attention to for a very long time. We learned how to take carbon out of the ground, but we never built a way to put it back. Carbon that had been isolated in the geosphere for tens or hundreds of millions of years was brought to the surface ...