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Good news, the share of the world's land used for agriculture has been declining for 24 years. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-for-a
by plasmasheep 2y ago
Good news, the share of the world's land used for agriculture has been declining for 24 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-for-agriculture?country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-f...
Now that your objection (increased land use) has been disproven, I am sure you will come to change your outmoded, even Ehrlichian, views on human population size.
- jogjayr 2y agoI don't know how to reconcile that with this other chart which shows agricultural land went from 4.81 billion ha in 2000 to 4.83 billion ha in 2023. Per capita it's still a decline. Personally I would attribute it to increasing yields in the developing world which are due to modern practices, pesticides, and fertilizers. But it doesn't show a decline like in the chart you posted. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-area-over-the-long-term?time=1930..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-area-o...