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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Since the graphic is showing ballooning land use for agriculture:

People who resort to "not every type of land can support plant-based agriculture" simply fail to realize the enormous difference in scale.

I could keep going, but I instead recommend reading the two linked studies and/or the OurWorldInData article which uses them among others as sources. I've never bothered to compile land use sources, so I apologize this isn't more thorough. Needless to say, however, the effects are catastrophic.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I recommend everyone read poore nemecek and their lca sources

[-] Zizzy 16 points 5 days ago

Just in my lifetime the amount of bugs has dropped so drastically and alarmingly. It is truly troubling.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Except the fuckers who drink our blood

[-] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Republicans?

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

I used to work in my grandfather's farm in rural Mexico when I was a kid and it was nice seeing all the wildlife. There were giant metallic green beetles, natural water springs cheerily bubbled across dirt roads, wild tamarind trees offered free fruit, and tadpoles swam in whatever puddles would form after some rain. Thirty years later, the dirt roads have been paved over, the frogs are gone, the natural springs were drained, and large swaths of ugly brick walled properties have destroyed the land and scenery around it.

It's devastating to see the natural beauty we once coexisted with disappear to create a suburban hell scape.

[-] nilaus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

The tetm is shifting baseline syndrome

[-] slightperil@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

This is the boiling the frog analogy. We've been sleepwalking into disaster.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

This is inaccurate because that farmland would all be scraped clean and have a few thousand McMansions on it by now.

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