Forests are expanding more than cities.

In our world, cities have always seemed unstoppable — swallowing landscapes, forests, and open skies in the name of growth. Every year, we paved more and planted less. We called it progress.

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But in the sheconomy timeline, growth took a different path. When women gained equal power in 1925, the economy’s heartbeat shifted. Investments began to flow toward care — for people, for communities, and for the planet itself. Policies written by women placed environmental health on par with economic health. Conservation was no longer an afterthought; it became a measure of prosperity.

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Over time, this changed everything. Instead of forests falling to expansion, cities began to grow alongside them. By 2016, global investment in biodiversity reached the tipping point that reversed deforestation entirely. For the first time in modern history, the planet grew greener — forests expanded faster than cities.