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VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Agriculture affects deforestation much more than most people realize

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VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Agriculture Affects Deforestation Much More Than Most People Realize
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Cattle farming accounts for 80 percent of all deforested land across the Amazon, and 41 percent of all tropical deforestation worldwide.
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    The tense is wrong. agriculture affected deforestation, but now deforestation is in decline. we reached a peak deforestation about 10 years ago I think.

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      It’s only lower in the countries that have the privilege of exporting their livestock to countries where its expanding massively.

      https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

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        no, it’s not

        https://ourworldindata.org/global-deforestation-peak

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      It being lower now doesn’t make it past tense.

      I’m sure the orangutans of the world are very comforted that you believe deforestation is a thing of the past.

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        it’s on the decline, and it will be a thing of the past in my lifetime

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          That’s extremely unlikely, but it must be nice to live with such optimism.

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