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Agreed, although I wouldn't fixate too heavily on that exact number. We have an industrial, chemical, nuclear, and biological complex that will take some time to render safe or inert.

This could be a pretty ideal planet to live on, but it will/would take some pretty massive structural changes in the way we operate. The impediments you point out are real.