Buffalo Commons
A reference to Frank and Deborah Popper's 1987 proposal for restoring depopulating Great Plains to grassland. The book uses it to evoke the scale of land use change possible once farmable land is no longer needed for food.
A register of regional civilizational restoration borrowed from Frank and Deborah Popper's 1987 proposal to return depopulating Great Plains farmland to grassland and bison. The book uses the term to evoke the scale of land use change that becomes possible once half of Earth's farmable land is no longer needed for food, and as the tonal north star for restoration-stage prose throughout the manuscript.
First introduced in: Chapter 5