We're consuming and polluting more than the environment can handle (overshoot).
Our economy, consumption and pollution is growing exponentially, in a finite environment (one planet).
It would be naive that in this point one single solution would solve our problems forever.
In fact, we should repair as many things as possible in one go, to get to the equilibrium as soon as possible.
Few things that could get us on the right track:
- remove the drivers of the exponential growth (reform the financial system, degrowth, ubi)
- speed up the transition to renewables (while we have fossil fuels, peak oil is not far away)
- stop polluting everything (plastics, pfas, pesticides/herbicides ...)
- reform agriculture (leading driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss, overfishing)
- plant based diets (animal ag. is 80+% of all agriculture, free an area the size of both Americas)
- reforest/rewild freed pastures to restore forests, biodiversity and water cycle (no monocultures, multi level canopies, no harvesting, old growth)
- by reforesting animal. ag. lands alone we could store enough carbon to cause new little ice age and reverse the warming
- reform / automate plant agriculture - repair soils, stop pesticides/herbicides (insects, pollinators)