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6 ways mushrooms can save the world

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Published: Aug 06, 2008

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Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords.

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mushroom, mushrooms, earth, planet, enviroment

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There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.

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