On that land a regular primeval forest, Miyawayki/Amazon/Syntropic style would grow 10x faster than regular monocultures and that would also enable the biodiversity to rebound. We'd get ourselves out of overshoot in no time (given few decades, of course).
The overshoot threatens our civilization with crop failures. The only realistic way out of it is immediate phase-out of fossil fuels and plant-based diets.
With catastrophic effects.
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2...
All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...
Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries
Most of it is because of animal agriculture - it uses 80% of agriculture land and about half of our crops.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
> Could we breed trees which capture more CO2?
We don't have to breed new trees. The ones we have are enough.
We have enough space to capture 2+x more CO2 than we've released into the atmosphere since industrial revolution.
We could switch to plant-based diets and free an area the size of both Americas.
https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...
On that land a regular primeval forest, Miyawayki/Amazon/Syntropic style would grow 10x faster than regular monocultures and that would also enable the biodiversity to rebound. We'd get ourselves out of overshoot in no time (given few decades, of course).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4
https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food
The overshoot threatens our civilization with crop failures. The only realistic way out of it is immediate phase-out of fossil fuels and plant-based diets.
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471