Bill Nye and Netflix Team Up to ‘Save the World’

With a rough 2016 officially behind us, and a foreboding 2017 ahead, maybe we all need a good dose of 1990’s nostalgia. This Spring, Bill Nye will make his long-awaited return to our screens with his new Netflix show, Bill Nye Saves the World.

The Science Guy and his band of correspondents—model Karlie Kloss, Xploration Outer Space host Emily Calandrelli, comedians Joanna Hausmannm and Nazeem Hussain, and Veritasium host Derek Muller—will explore some of the most complex scientific topics of the day, from climate change, vaccines and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

While Netflix first announced the show in late August, Nye’s comeback seems all the more fitting with Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration this Jan. 20.

“Each episode will tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry,” Netflix stated in a press release.

Trump, as any EcoWatch reader knows, is just about as anti-science as it gets. The president-elect has plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, undo President Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan and other environmental initiatives, and has nominated an entire cabinet of fossil fuel “puppets” and executives.

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largely because of the success of modern farming.”

However, Nye cautioned that introducing new organisms into the ecosystem can have “unintended consequences.”

“My take on it now is genetically modified food is actually, in general—genetically modified plants, in general—are not only not harmful, they’re actually a great benefit. However, you can’t just go planting enormous monocultures and killing everything and expect the ecosystems to take it,” he said.