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We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] boomzilla@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also: animal ag uses 80% of all arable land with most of it destined for grazing land (which a lot of (rain-)-forest had to be razed for) while only producing 17% of global calories and 38% of global proteins. The rest comes from human edible plants. A global switch to a plant based diet would reduce land usage from 4 to 1 billion. It's still possible to re-wild grazing lands.

[โ€“] tar@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

A global switch to a plant based diet would reduce land usage from 4 to 1 billion.

this is based entirely on poore-nemecek 2018, and is not a reliable claim