Giant bamboo is the next greengold in the coming mid-21st Century.
It is also one of the many solutions to global warming. Governments all over the world are encouraging planting of bamboo. It converts Carbon dioxide to Oxygen at a 30% higher rate than normal trees. Unlike iron, bamboo is a renewable industrial material;
Its tensile strength is almost twice as that of iron.
Researchers are reaserching on how bamboo's strength and industrial sustainability could be increased. Therefore, by 2040, it could replace iron as a major industrial material.