Dr. Rao explains that a massive shift by billions of humans away from eating animals would accomplish what a GIANT carbon capture machine could get done. By reforesting most of the land now being used to grow animals and their food those forests would, like a huge vacuum, begin sucking billions of tons of GhG out of the atmosphere
By the time all humans have shifted to plant-based eating, those new forests will be drawing down greenhouse gases at a greater rate than all of our civilization is producing them.
Such a huge global shift would result in a rapid, worldwide re-forestation process as some 90% of the billions of acres currently being used to feed livestock could be allowed to become natural forests again.
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