Killing every screwworm would be the best thing humanity ever did | Kevin Esvelt

Full interview:    • Cults that want to kill everyone and ...   A billion animals are eaten alive by flesh-eating maggots every year. MIT biologist and gene drive inventor Kevin Esvelt explains on The 80,000 Hours Podcast why driving it to eradicating with a gene drive would be an even bigger win for animals than ending factory farming today.

If you like this, check out our full episode with Kevin, where he also talks about bioterrorism, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives:
• Full episode:    • Cults that want to kill everyone and ...  
• Highlights from the episode:    • Highlights: Kevin Esvelt on cults tha...  

Want to help with this project?
• Learn more: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a... and https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wil... (from the group working on this project in South America)
• Discuss here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...

Learn more on the 80,000 Hours website:
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episod...

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