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Two simple questions reveal how much land we could save by eating plants. Almost everyone guesses wrong (veganhorizon.substack.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If you aren't familiar with it, I suggest checking out Bill Reese's talks on overshoot. Nice to see an actual intelligent person talk about how fucked we are as a species lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I'll have to give it a look. It's pretty bad yeah lol. I even saw something on here recently talking about how we're farming so much that the nutrition in our food is plummeting from low soil nutrient levels. Makes me wonder about that whole "Great Filter" question. Things are extremely bleak.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Oh man. It's way worse than you think, lol. Don't start deep diving unless you're ready to feel existential grief and probably anxiety.

    The soil on the great plains used to be 12 feet thick on average, now its roughly 6 inches lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah if you go back further it's way worse. I was just talking about a specific study comparing soil now to like the 90s or something I think? But if you go back and read like personal journals of the colonizers who came to the Americas they'll talk about things like "You can throw a spear at a river blindly and hit 2 fish". Then them and their ancestors went on to ruin that very environment lol. Then like the Buffalo herds that used to number in the millions. It's such a shame.

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