Biofabricated leather is a thing now.
Takes two weeks to grow, looks and feels like real leather.
Zero ecological cost.
Replacing leather with a material that’s grown in a lab once sounded as ridiculous as the notion that many petroleum products will be replaced with synthetic alternatives.
“The world can’t run without oil.”
Yes it can, quite easily.
Lubricants are replaced with biodegradable synthetic alternatives, and systems that use it as fuel are replaced entirely.