https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/ How can America better use its land for monetary purposes? Are large scale sustainable agro projects in the next decade realistic?
Thank you it's been a very interesting piece, a lot of informative statistics. As an outsider(not American) from a small country the size of the U.S.A is almost unbelievable for me. The amount of acers that is devoted to golf courses alone in the US(2 million) is equals to 26.5 percent of the size of Belgium(7.54 million acres) I don't know how much i have to add since im not American and my knowledge about your country is quite lacking but as someone that work at statics i couldn't pass on an article full of it. For me the most interesting and incredible statistic is about the amount of acres that is devoted to pasture. "More than one-third of U.S. land is used for pasture—by far the largest land-use type in the contiguous 48 states". The urbanization statics are also quite interesting "Even though urban areas make up just 3.6 percent of the total size of the 48 contiguous states, four in five Americans live, work and play there" "The U.S. is becoming more urban—at an average rate of about 1 million additional acres a year". I guess it was expected but it's still surprising me due the size of the phenomena.
It is very, very big and like all huge countries (Russia, China) the population is concentrated in small parts of it. The national parks are just as incredible today as they were centuries ago. Every nation should have untouched land with it's own ecosystem. However, that also opens up the possibility of using land for inevitable initiatives like massive solar parks. Replacing the large amount of agricultural land used for cattle with lab grown meat and using it for sustainable measures. https://qz.com/india/1283299/in-the...power-projects-india-is-poised-to-beat-china/ http://www.climatecentral.org/news/china-solar-farm-satellite-21182 When you see what 2 of the largest and fastest growing economies are putting their resources into, there is no excuse to pretend like the US needs to reinvest in coal energy. You can see how politics muddles all this and common sense, but with the cost of solar panels falling fast... change might be closer than you think. Why Texas is terrible at producing solar power
Yes i haven't been to the US(hoping to come and watch the Rockets soom) but I've been to both China and Russia and it was very overwhelming for me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country Very interesting statistc about the amount of urbanization world wide, China got a lot of time until it catch either Russia or U.S.A in term of urban population. It's quite a interesting topic but also a big one. Especially if you check the UN forecast about the future of urbanization world wide. I agree with you that "Every nation should have untouched land with it's own ecosystem." I grow up next to a forest and a lake and i want the same for my childrens. I agree with you about solar parks, it's something i wanna see happening across the world and not just in America. I don't know a lot about lab grown meat and when it would be relevant but I'm hoping that the US would be smart enough to use it to use the land more efficiently. I won't get into the politics here beacuse i dont know enough but here is another interesting statistc abot solar energy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country First the China is the absolute world power in terms of solar power. Secondly the US seems in a good place compared to the world while its obvious that there is a lot of room for improvement. You can obviously see the progress India made(due to there National Solar Mission). The most interesting country's here for me are Italy, Honduras and Greece. their Share of total consumption percentage is by far the highest.
