If by: > do nothing at all. Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover. you mean: let humans go extinct. Then yes,

If by: > do nothing at all. Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover. you mean: let humans go extinct. Then yes, that would work. It has the elegance of Multivac’s answer to Asimov’s “The last question” “And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.”