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ezmack ( ezmack@lemmy.ml )  to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Land use in the US

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Land use in the US

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  • LiesSlander ( LiesSlander@beehaw.org ) 
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    “Food we eat” is half the size of “livestock feed”. Plus look at how small wetlands/deserts are, wetlands especially are essential to climate resillience. What egregiously bad land use, wow. Thanks for this post, it’s great.

    • inasaba ( inasaba@lemmy.ml ) 
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      It takes 76% less land for us to just eat plants, rather than to grow them to feed to animals that we then in turn eat. Really amazing how inefficient it is.

    • KevonLooney ( KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 
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      It’s just wrong though. Deserts are particularly huge in the West. Essentially the whole states of Arizona and New Mexico, plus parts of Utah and Nevada.

      They’re probably inside the “parks” part.

      • PaupersSerenade ( PaupersSerenade@beehaw.org ) 
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        I think you might be on to something with the parks idea. I know California has a Protection Act on the books that covers ours.

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