Hello, while I think plenty of people will provide good ideas, I have a few that have been weighing on my mind for years and felt this would be a good time to speak on them. We have a problem in this country where so many issues have stacked against each other to where it feels impossible to even try undoing it. Our usage of plastic needs to find ways to become mitigated to stop the unknown affects of plastic in our bodies, as well as the irreversible damage it’s causing our planet. To every impossible task there needs to be a starting point, which I think is to stop usage of it on food. Another huge issue obviously being this totalitarian control of corporations, they may not choose to listen as plastic is cheap. We need infrastructure within every city and neighborhood that is semi-self sustainable in their food supply. We need communities to come together and share different foods grown within their neighborhoods and city gardens and greenhouses open to local residents for little costs, this would eliminate a need for plastic on fresh foods. Another step to take in resourcing our foods needs to be in taking a look at Indigenous food Forests that utilized every layer of the canopy for human and animal gain. Mono-crop agriculture doesn’t have to disappear entirely, but creating city food forests would be extremely valuable to the endangered environments and species dying off in rapid rates as we keep taking and poisoning the land we sit on. While I’m on the topic of endangered species, the monarch butterfly is on track ti be extinct in the next two years because of how much the landscape has changed. Their migration survival requires milkweed I believe; to eat and reproduce. We need to create a national migration trail of land designated to ensure their survival, in creating a trail like this, we could also look into many other migratory species to do the same. Another farm I believe we should heavily push is mushroom farms. Heavily stigmatized, but there’s are millions of species, with incredible benefits that are heavily understudies and underutilized. They grow faster than plants, and could drastically change the health scene in America. Same for psychedelics and micro dosing, heavily understudied and I firmly believe it can change that way we approach PTSD, Dementia, anxiety, depression and so many other things if we just would lean in to its research. They also could utilize fungus on oil spills and potentially landfills and the trash island the size of Texas floating in the ocean, we just need to dive into the research to get a shift in mindset and funding. While mushrooms grow fast a plant that also grows extremely fast and could benefit us in many ways is hemp. I’m not taking about the drug but the plant itself. Hemp paper is stronger, more durable paper. It would grow 10 times faster than the 40% of trees the timber industries use for their paper. Elimination of the timber industry would potentially free land for natural habitat, food forests, ect. There are large farms that should be grown and kept in use I just think we need to drastically change the approach. We need to get away from the concrete enclosures and intertwine nature with our infrastructure! One way this becomes more possible is with less need for driving. We need an international high speed rail way that can eliminate car and plane usage drastically. The technologies for these trains has become very impressive and better public transport in general nationwide could stop the need to ruin cities with major highways running through what should be walkable areas. And filling the majority of spaces with parking garages. Imagine taking a 12 hour train ride from San Francisco to New York City. Or even changing your 8 hour drive home for Christmas to a three hour trip. Our environment is a real issue to be reckoned with wether we want to admit it or not, and these are all steps towards that future. This is a little random but if it gets seen by the right person who has the power and curiosity to get the ball rolling I’m all here for it. The Amazon rainforest most definitely has medical advancements just waiting to be recognized. Listen to local reports and there’s some incredibly interesting stories. Tribal methods of medicine that need to be studied by western science. While on the topic of land and saving land, we are seeing a massive increase of corporations and billionaires buying land at staggering rates. Put rules laws in place that limit these monopolies of land, turn them back to their natural landscapes as well as food forests so everything can benefit. That’s all I’ve got of the top of my head for now, I hope this gets seen and provides ideas or insight that has not been considered. I’m a 22 year old student at the University of Nebraska who wants to see the world begin to heal, before we break it and ourselves in the process.