| > There is either too little rainfall, or the wrong kind/timing of rainfall, or the soils are wrong. For rainfall reasons forests are out too. No. Forests create rain. Missing forests (thanks to animal husbandry) are partly responsible for droughts and irregular/extreme weather events. Please don't pretend that grazing is the only thing these lands are good for. Almost any land can be reforested easily (if it has some dirt, and it's not just sand/rock desert, then it's harder, but not at all impossible). > Leaving these pastoral lands fallow (without herds of wild ruminants, with their global warming emissions) would just result in continual grass fires. We've taken away the ability of those lands to reforest itself with continual grazing / fire burning. We have to supply some seeds (see fukuoka method) and let the land be. Nature will do the rest. > Pastoral lands are pastoral, and not arable, usually because they are not suitable for arable cropping.
> Persuading people to leave money on the table is difficult. Your premise is that all land must have a commercial value. It's a fallacy. We should rewild those areas and return that land to forests & wild animals (we've stolen it from them). We need to stop subsidizing bad/harmful things (e.g., oil industry, meat/dairy production, sea exploitation, plastic production) and start subsidizing the right things (e.g., alternative energy sources/savings, plant based foods, reforestation efforts). |