Budget for Restoring Earth; Lester Brown

Sustainable Business Insider Article:

"We can roughly estimate how much it will cost to reforest the earth, protect the earth's topsoil, restore rangelands and fisheries, stabilize water tables, and protect biological diversity. Where data and information are lacking, we fill in with assumptions. The goal is not to have a set of precise numbers, but a set of reasonable estimates for an earth restoration budget."

The big suprise here is this:

Annual Earth Restoration Budget

Funding Goal
$6 billion Reforesting the earth
$14 billion Protecting topsoil on cropland
$9 billion Restoring rangelands
$13 billion Restoring fisheries
$31 billion Protecting biological diversity
$10 billion Stabilizing water tables
$93 billion TOTAL

93 Billion is peanuts compared to the overall volume of the global economy, or the cost of the Iraq war. This is an issue of political will, not available science or resources.