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Consumer behavior drives industry to do the things it does. People demand more meat, industry cuts down large swaths of forest to make land on which to graze ca
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Consumer behavior drives industry to do the things it does. People demand more meat, industry cuts down large swaths of forest to make land on which to graze cattle.
I don't get how people think this is supposed to work. It's like they just want to not take any responsibility whatsoever for how their behavior affects the world. Where do you think the change is going to come from if no one is willing to alter their lifestyle?
- goatlover 5y agoAnd yet, deforestation rates have declined significantly over the past several decades globally despite added several billion people, while Europe and the US have been reforesting. From the article: "As we explore in more detail in our related article, countries tend to follow a predictable development in forest cover, a U-shaped curve.5 They lose forests as populations grow and demand for agricultural land and fuel increases, but eventually they reach the so-called ‘forest transition point’ where they begin to regrow more forests than they lose."