We're on the same side you and I, you're "preaching to the choir." But I'm telling you, things are not as dark as they seem! We're learning and applying that learning.

I know about topsoil degradation and erosion, but it's something we're learning to prevent. E.g. Gabe Brown's "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A
He increases his topsoil volume and fertility year-on-year, and his farm is more profitable!

Population growth seems like it's leveling off all on it's own, mostly as women get more education and wealth and have fewer children per capita. Japan has already started contracting in population, eh?

Water is going to be a problem in many areas, but again, people are learning and applying ecological principles to regenerate wastelands. Did you check out the Greening the Desert project?

> That is not considering worse scenarios like arctic frozen methane melting and releasing a lethal load of methane into the atmosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis#Curre...

The clathrate gun hypothesis is scary, I know, it's kept me up at night. But since there's nothing to do about it beyond just fixing things anyway, the solution to that is the same as the solution to everything else: learn to live in harmony with nature. And it seems like the danger might not be a great as we originally feared. I hope so!

> Each time you mention the subject, people talk about some obscure, prototype program somewhere that requires Ivy League engineers and millions of dollars to run.

Well, you're mentioning it to me and I'm not doing that.

Permaculture (just to talk about something I have some experience with) is easy to learn, easy to teach, fun and profitable to practice, and doesn't require "Ivy League engineers and millions of dollars to run."

> billions of people do not even have toilets

All they need is Eisenia fetida. They eat poop and poop soil. It's that simple.

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

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

> you think in less than 50 years they will be doing futuristic shit on a zero dollar budget?

Well I didn't say that did I? What I said, and I believe it, is that we have all the information and technology we need already to fix our environmental problems, and that the limiting factor is social (getting the word out) rather than technological (we don't have to e.g. invent fusion first.)

That's my thesis.

I'm not talking about "futuristic shit", except that ecology could be considered futuristic? It's a young science anyway. What I'm talking about is applying ecological principles to solve our basic human needs (the lower levels of Maslow's Hierarchy, eh?)

It will probably take more than a "zero dollar budget" (where did you get that from?) But again, ecological regeneration is the default condition of life. It literally is solar-powered self-improving nanotechnology, eh?

You can start anywhere, with next to nothing, and increase biomass and diversity and fertility. I took some sandy soil, added some wood chips that some chickens had pooped in and a few potatoes, and now there's a lively potato patch where before there was a bit of bare dirt. Zero initial budget.

But yeah, if we "lean into it" with money and resources and people then we can accelerate the healing.

Come, let's grow a beautiful future together for all humankind. I truly believe it's possible, and that the only thing holding us back is that we haven't fully realized it yet.

Cheers!