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Total weight of wild mammals is less than 10% of humanity’s
- myshpa 4y agoThat's truly horrific. And the culprit is ... meat eating and agriculture. It's the primary driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss. Animal agriculture because 75% of all agriculture land (30% of habitable land) [0] is used for meat/dairy, although it supplies only 18% of calories and 37% of proteins (we get majority of our proteins from veggies already). We should acknowledge that it's our personal responsibility to lower demand of things which harm the nature, and protect (demand protection of) what remains. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use https://ourworldindata.org/land-use