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Farming has it's own costs and tradeoffs as well. If everyone started to eat only vegetables we quickly run out places to grow the types of crops we recommend.

• myshpa 3y ago
  > we quickly run out places to grow the types of crops we recommend Not at all. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares > The problem is overpopulation A little math might help. environmental_impact = number_of_individuals * mean_individual_consumption We can either lower individual_consumption, or wait for the nature to reduce number_of_individuals