Transformation Calculations

Ultimately, we need to steward all of Earth. Indigenous cultures attempted this, but then they were bellicose to each other, and on top of the white plague wiped them out at the end. So stewardship went into the hands of people who were largely disconnected from the land.

Regenerative development at scale implies that we can collaborate and solve this, to reverse diversity loss on all fronts, human and wild.

The world relative to its human population is quite large. It is 123 billion acres in size, of which 37 billion acres are land. See Who Owns the Land. Furthermore,

Of the earth's 57 million square miles (148,000,000 km²) of land, approximately 12 million square miles (31,000,000 km²) are arable; however, arable land is being lost at the rate of over 100,000 km² (38,610 square miles) per year. [1]

In a collaborative economy, we envision stewards on 1000 acre parcels to reverse soil losss and loss of nature. We envision integrated agroecology - where you cannot tell nature from agriculture. That means we would need 7.7 million stewards to nurture all arable land.

In the United States, we have 1.5M square km [2] of arable land, and it would likely be sufficient to convert this to regenerative use as above in order to transition America to a post-scarcity economy. In America, that would be about 370,000 parcels of 1000 acres.