Let's build a Super-Habitable Earth

How do you go about boosting an already-habitable planet's habitability? I want to maximize biomass, hopefully cover the whole planet surface in luxuriant jungles and forests, brimming with insects, animals and (hopefully) megafauna, while the oceans are alive with kelp, invertebrates and fish of all shapes and sizes, all growing (if possible) at a greatly accelerated pace.

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The Ssiws people want to make their (Earth-like) planet super-habitable (mostly for the purpose of roughing it out outdoors with the mega-beasts such an amped-up world will support, all in a potentially misguided attempt to feel more alive than in their ultra-safe orbital habitats). Incidentally, it's also good publicity for their main export IP product, the Ssiws Army Knife^®. They have hired a famous eco-poetess, Deirdre Skye, and gave her essentially a carte-blanche on the planet, and the full might of their fabled zero-point drives to make it all happen reasonably fast.

^{Note: To my mind, the obvious criterion for a good answer would be a listing of plausible actions (artificially sustained if need be, but keep it realistic) that would boost the total $biomass$ and $biodiversity$ to the max. I'm open to being convinced of better criteria.}

posted over 8 years ago

Serban Tanasa‭

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