Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:50:47
• Published: 2024-07-19 17:27

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the Amazon (11:40), raising money from tech billionaires (14:40), growing up in northern Idaho (17:50), almost dying from malaria (20:00), rebuilding science in Iraq (23:30), close calls (30:40), setting up the first national park in Afghanistan (33:10), optimism (39:15), air conditioning (42:15), and building their own products (47:10).

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