But my short term quarterly profits are far more important than your mass extinction, unless we can make a dollar off of it.
But… mega yachts
> humanity could begin conserving many of the vanishing species at minimal cost and with using only roughly 164 megahectares (equal to 10,000 hectares or 38.6 square miles)
It’s the whole system that’s unsustainable. We won’t be able to reverse the trend by tweaking the parameters here and there – a complete overhaul of the social and economic fabric is necessary.
This includes things like degrowth, implementing UBI/UBS, reforming capitalism (infinite growth in a finite environment), [plant-based diets](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/) and transforming agricultural practices.
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But my short term quarterly profits are far more important than your mass extinction, unless we can make a dollar off of it.
But… mega yachts
> humanity could begin conserving many of the vanishing species at minimal cost and with using only roughly 164 megahectares (equal to 10,000 hectares or 38.6 square miles)
While this is a good first step to halt the trend, we won’t reverse the trend of mass extinctions without reforming agriculture by [rewilding and reforesting pastures](https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets) and [abolishing pesticides, herbicides and monocultures](https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-global-food-system-primary-driver-biodiversity-loss).
It’s the whole system that’s unsustainable. We won’t be able to reverse the trend by tweaking the parameters here and there – a complete overhaul of the social and economic fabric is necessary.
This includes things like degrowth, implementing UBI/UBS, reforming capitalism (infinite growth in a finite environment), [plant-based diets](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/) and transforming agricultural practices.