Biden: This is an existential threat to human existence as we know it (CNN)

[ItsjustMe]

President Joe Biden said the climate crisis is "the existential threat to human existence as we know it," and urged world leaders gathered for the COP26 climate summit to come together to reduce emissions and save the planet.

[Backseat Driver]

1. Long, long way to market: this new acceleration process would reduce CO2 and

create synthesized food calories...without corn: But, yay, for shelf-stable (prepper?) puddings, gravies, personal powder-like product, and a dry long-hair dog grooming detangler (that's how I use corn starch)...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/cen-09936-leadcon

FOOD PRODUCTION
New method makes starch from CO₂ faster than plants can
The advance hints at sustainable, efficient factory production of food and industrial chemicals

Feeding the world uses enormous amounts of land, water, fertilizers, pesticides, and fuel. In a step toward more sustainable food production, researchers have designed a method to make starches from carbon dioxide more efficiently than plants do (Science 2021, DOI: 10.1126/science.abh4049).
The new technique, which relies on chemical catalysts and a curated combination of natural and engineered enzymes, converts CO2 to starch 8.5 times as efficiently as corn plants can.
“This suggests that it is possible we can produce starch in a factory rather than on a farm, which should be a way to ensure human food security and reduce carbon dioxide emissions,” says Yanhe Ma, a microbiologist at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology. The synthetic starch could find use in industrial applications and as an ingredient in animal or human food. [snip]

Not really even a huge job-creator manufacturing, I'd suppose, though perhaps for a niche global market???

[PoliticAverse]

2. And so we'll fix it in 29 years or so (maybe). n/t