How Mushrooms Will Solve the Worlds’ Biggest Problems

Mushrooms may be most famous for their pizza art and psychedelic strain , but Paul Stamets , renowned mycologist and mushroom partizan , has much loftier vision for everyone ’s favorite fungi . He believes that the solution to some of the globe ’s biggest problems lie in in mushroom land .

More specifically he posits that — mycelium , the tight web of filaments out of which mushrooms grow — are our Florida key to a cleaner satellite . Oyster Mushrooms , for example , are extremely good at breaking down toxic permissive waste and capturing E. coli . By dispersing their mycelium , says Stamets , we could melt off the toxicity of industrial dissipation while originate nutrient in the process .

According to Stamet , these constituent growth may be the gross solution to our human being - made mess : “ mushroom respond to ruinous event , and we ’re the biggest walk tragedy that I fuck of . ” [ Focus Forward Films ]