Ken Ilgunas’ utopia for North America:
A stable population of 100 million humans (a mostly arbitrary number), mostly clustered in metropolitan areas, eating the best, juiciest lab-grown sirloins, enjoying lives of meaning and leisure, with lots of solar panels and pagan orgies. Now that the land is free of domesticated farm animals and all the crops needed to support them, the continental U.S. is made up of:
2% urban development
20% agriculture
10% regenerative forest for timber
68% wildernessHumans are free to visit and travel through America’s various Serengeties, and many still live rural lives, working, not as farmers, but as ecologists, rewilders, nature caretakers, and wilderness shepherds.