My new crazy idea that will definitely not go wrong and destroy most of life on earth is that we should genetically engineer plankton to make them resistant to infection by viruses that break them down and results in the release of CO2 in the atmosphere. researchgate.net/publication/76… 
Note that if we did that and it worked, not only could we continue to use fossil fuel that release CO2, but we'd *have* to continue to release CO2 in the atmosphere even if we no longer need to for energy since otherwise it would eventually deplete CO2 from the atmosphere.
So we'd basically go from worrying about how we are burning too much fossil fuel to worrying about we might cause a new ice age if we don't burn enough of it. We'd come up with schemes to subsidize carbon instead of taxing it. Imagine how it would fuck with people's brains 😂
If I keep reading biology papers and my number of followers continue to grow, I may eventually be responsible for a mass extinction event. It could be called the Lemoinian extinction event, at least if there are still humans around to name extinction events after that.
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