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Yep you're right. The place I heard it was the Just Have a Think YouTube channel. He was quoting Hannah Ritchie: https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforest
by dools 2y ago
Yep you're right. The place I heard it was the Just Have a Think YouTube channel. He was quoting Hannah Ritchie:
https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#is-our-appetite-for-soy-driving-deforestation-in-the-amazon https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#is-our-a...
The figure is 75% of global soy goes to animals, and China is more than Europe (although EU is second largest importer of Brazilian soy after China).
So the figures are 75% and China+Europe, not 95% and Europe.
Either he got it wrong or I remembered it wrong! Thanks for pointing that out.