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

Update: 2024-07-19

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

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

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