Maybe there’s a way we can get a group together to deploy the right mushroom to clean the biosphere ..I can’t fund something like this but maybe there’s a way to get a bunch of people together to help fund this and deploy it before it’s too late.
I don’t have the time right now to look into this but here’s a link for more info if anyone’s interested:
EDIT: I just found this article with a reference list of mushrooms and what they degrade: https://www.realmushrooms.com/mycoremediation-mushrooms-pollution/#11qmk
We're gonna need something that can degrade vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene which are heavily UV resistant so they are going to take awhile to degrade naturally. I haven't taken chemistry in a few years, but just by looking at the reference sheet, I'm thinking the oyster mushroom and king tube mushrooms might be the best contenders.
I see on the website that he has a lot of products for sale but I can't find much about mycoremediation. His team is doing some initiatives to offset cow farts, lowering carbon footprints, but not much else. They probably have to focus on climate change in order to get grants.
His team did a mycoremidiation of a pile of soil contaminated with diesel fuel you can watch on YouTube. He injected the pile with oyster mushrooms and after a couple weeks there was massive mushrooms growing on it and the diesel was all gone. They do it with oil in the Amazon too. Just look up paul stamets mycoremediation and the video comes up as part of a presentation.
He went into great detail about it in at least one of his talks. There was some massive toxic contamination in the area he lived in and the EPA(?) came to ask him why is property was not only unaffected but thriving. He showed them everything. The fungi ate and broke down all the contaminants. I don't remember the details now but it's definitely out there