I was referring to the comment that said it would take 2500 years to grow "that kind of forest". What I am saying is that it is possible to grow "that kind of

I was referring to the comment that said it would take 2500 years to grow "that kind of forest". What I am saying is that it is possible to grow "that kind of forest" if you have money in much shorter time. Tree farming is one way to make the whole thing profitable (and hence sustainable) but it can be designed to resemble a natural forest with sufficient biodiversity and so on. For example we can take a deforested region in Haiti or India or Zimbabwe, grow tree farms on say 10K acres of land and reserve another 10K to grow a more traditional forest. We don't have to wait 2500 years to grow sufficiently large trees which can host wide variety of species of fauna. Even for smaller shrubs and such we can do enough research to grow them faster with help of better irrigantion, enriched soil etc. One of the reason why this does not happen already is because we have reduced the entire topic to zero sum between normal people and tree people. > sustainable housing must be walkable and integrated, not car-centric like American suburbia always is. I am not sure why such statement should be made. Large homes with huge backyard offers great quality of life in ways the densely packed animal like city human farms can't.