It's difficult to get good estimates of biosphere uptake and release of atmospheric carbon by looking at satellite color data - those numbers involve a lot of modeling. Rough estimates are that the biosphere cycles 100 gigatons of carbon a year through the atmosphere (plants taking up CO2 to form biomass, fungi/insects/animals breaking down plant matter to CO2), while human fossil fuel emissions are on the order of 9 gigatons C per year at present, perhaps half of which stays in the atmosphere long-term.
There's little doubt that the planet is heading back to Pliocene conditions at a steady clip, and of course life was abundant back then - indeed without fossil fuels the planet would be on a steady cooling trend back to another ice age (it would take some 70,000 years though to reach another ice age maximum), so if you want to celebrate that achievement, go ahead - but note, you don't want to overshoot the target so immediate elimination of fossil fuel combustion as an energy source is the only rational conclusion.
Here's a paper on the issue of how to link satellite color data to photosynthetic production, see Figs 5 / 6/ 7 for estimates of very moderate increases from 1982-2017 (satellite collection only began c.1982) across the northern hemisphere (but steep declines in the Amazon):
"Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017", Zheng et. al 2020
Atmospheric CO2 accumulation increased from ~1.5 to ~2.5 ppm/year over that period, coinciding with a rough doubling in global fossil fuel consumption since 1980 (plus a lot of nitrogen fertilizers), along with a +0.2C per decade (5yr running avg) temperature increase.
There's little doubt that the planet is heading back to Pliocene conditions at a steady clip, and of course life was abundant back then - indeed without fossil fuels the planet would be on a steady cooling trend back to another ice age (it would take some 70,000 years though to reach another ice age maximum), so if you want to celebrate that achievement, go ahead - but note, you don't want to overshoot the target so immediate elimination of fossil fuel combustion as an energy source is the only rational conclusion.
Here's a paper on the issue of how to link satellite color data to photosynthetic production, see Figs 5 / 6/ 7 for estimates of very moderate increases from 1982-2017 (satellite collection only began c.1982) across the northern hemisphere (but steep declines in the Amazon):
"Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017", Zheng et. al 2020
Atmospheric CO2 accumulation increased from ~1.5 to ~2.5 ppm/year over that period, coinciding with a rough doubling in global fossil fuel consumption since 1980 (plus a lot of nitrogen fertilizers), along with a +0.2C per decade (5yr running avg) temperature increase.