While these are just two exciting examples of the ways that mushrooms/mycelium and blue-green algae can work toward a sustainable world, governments have yet to invest in mass mycelium clean-up projects. By fusing technology and the natural world, as Mannoor and Joshi have, with the creativity of human invention as Stamets has, we can find solutions to our climate and global challenges.
Responding to Climate Change is currently an obligation, a topic that resurfaces occasionally in the headlines when scientists release new findings, an invisible concept with looming uncertainty that intermittently enters into a conversation between the politically astute and educated.
Therefore, we’ve blown it.