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You're describing modern agriculture, with all the issues around pesticide use, soil erosion, cutting down forests to plant crops, etc...

• cies 6y ago
  > cutting down forests to plant crops And then feeding most of that crop produce to our livestock. Eating plants directly solves the problem: we'd have abundance.
  • earthboundkid 6y ago
    Wouldn’t population just increase until we’re back where we are now?
    • cies 6y ago
      If we need less crop produce (because we dont need to feed the live stock) then the crop produce related pollution will decrease by the same factor, right? No also consider all the pollution from the live stock (which is huge! see the documentary Cowspiracy or Dominion for details). A lot of pollution come directly or indirectly from animal produce. I count CO2, NOx, phosphor, methane, water use/pollution/acidification, land use/pollution/acidification. It's said that it is one of the most polluting industries, up there with transport and residential heating/cooling.
• VBprogrammer 6y ago
  As a life long meat eater, most of those things you mention are caused by agriculture which ends up feeding animals in the form of corn and soya.