Our Approach to Drought and Wildfire Is Economically Backwards As the world grapples with devastating droughts and wildfires, it's astonishing that governments seem oblivious to the fact that investing in land restoration could generate up to $1.
8 trillion annually and create an additional 65 million jobs by 2030. When we think of economic infrastructure, we envision steel beams, concrete foundations, and power grids.
Yet the UNCCD estimates that roughly half of global output – $44 trillion of global GDP – relies on natural capital, including healthy land.