You know what's the simplest solution for carbon sequestration on industrial scales? Trees! And do you know how we could make space for more trees? By switching

You know what's the simplest solution for carbon sequestration on industrial scales? Trees! And do you know how we could make space for more trees? By switching as much as we can to plant based diets because it takes a lot more plants to feed the animals that we eat instead of eating the plants directly. I did an estimation once for Western Europe using FAO stats[1] and by switching to a vegan diet we could roughly double the size of the forests, that's a massive scale! It'll help fighting the climate crisis and it'll also help solving the species extinction crisis in Western Europe. And the cool thing is that we don't need to wait for all the human population to switch overnight to a vegan diet, reducing meat and dairy consumption is a perfectly valid first step that everyone can do! The more people switch diets and the more space will become available for rewilding. We can already see plant based diets becoming more and more popular, and at the same time it seems that flexitarian diets are also getting quite mainstream. I think there's hope on that front at least. [1] https://vinc.cc/essays/changing-our-diet-for-a-wilder-world/ https://vinc.cc/essays/changing-our-diet-for-a-wilder-world/