# Save 4 Billion Lives by Regenerating 10% of the Planet

> A Club of Brussels feature on Michel de Kemmeter's proposal to reframe global security: rather than spending nearly $3 trillion a year on military defense, redirect a comparable sum toward regenerating 10% of Earth's degraded land. He argues restoring roughly 14.9 million km² would create 'green corridors of life' — water, food and resilience — for the four billion people already hit by land degradation, and represents a $10 trillion-a-year economic opportunity. Zambia is proposed as the proof-of-concept.

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