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We have the solution, and not just for the warming, but for most symptoms of the overshoot, we just don't like it.

Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

If we'd stopped fossil fuels ASAP, reformed agriculture and switched globally to plant based diets, we'd free up 80% of agricultural lands we use for animal agriculture. That's the area a size of Africa.

Reforest/rewild it (cca 3+ trillion trees) and we'd store enough carbon to return CO2 to pre-industrial levels and enable biodiversity to return to previous levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_overshoot

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/18/after-millennia-of-agr...

After Millennia of Agricultural Expansion, the World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-global-forest-area-capita-decr...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin...

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows

New study finds global forest area per capita has decreased by over 60% over the past 60 years

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...

Mass extinction of Earth's wildlife is closer than we think - study

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.12974

More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through thediversity of population trends



Nuclear Power would have been the solution. There are ways to even reduce the radioactivity of the waste that are technically feasible. Though I am not against renewables at all, I love solar as well, we have a solar powered water heating system in my apartment.


A single solution won't suffice. That could have worked 50-70 years ago, not now.

Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

Agriculture is a key culprit in 5-6 out of 8-9 of those symptoms, and animal ag accounts for 80% of all agriculture.

Nuclear will/should help with the climate change, but will do very little in other areas. And we should solve most of them, otherwise we're still ... in a bad place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_overshoot

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-climate-crisis-biodiversity-ap...

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study




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