"The biologization of industry" seems to be complementary to the industrialization of biotech rather than an alternative to it. The pitch for biologization is:

"The biologization of industry" seems to be complementary to the industrialization of biotech rather than an alternative to it. The pitch for biologization is: "Living in the industrialized world, we have giant retail stores that are packed with chemicals and detergents, medicines, and clothing and materials that have been shipped from all around the world in a complex supply chain. What if we didn’t need that? What if we could grow what we wanted locally? What if our supply chain was just biology?" That's only going to work for some materials. Bacteria are versatile but they can't produce materials like carbon fiber or copper alloys. They can help to produce inputs to making those materials, like acrylonitrile [1] or copper ore concentrates [2], but the fiber and alloys are going to be made in factories that still consume industrial quantities of material and need industrial scale supplies. [1] https://www.solvay.com/en/press-release/solvay-collaborate-trillium-bio-based-acrylonitrile-carbon-fiber-applications https://www.solvay.com/en/press-release/solvay-collaborate-t... [2] https://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/2004/05/producing_copper_natures_way_bioleaching.html https://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/...