Ecological engineering & gene drives
Deliberately engineering whole wild populations — from CRISPR gene drives that force 100% inheritance of a trait through a mosquito population in 6-20 generations to Wolbachia-infected and radiation-sterilized releases that collapse it instead — as a genetic complement to nature-based ecological engineering like constructed wetlands and living shorelines, all governed by an irreversibility problem no field release can undo.
genome-engineering
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