Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

  • urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
  • agriculture is 48m km²,

so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that’s 98%. The remaining 2% are all streets and housing and other infrastructure together.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    This is true, but personally, I vote that instead of cows we reintroduce the buffalo. Let the herds roam free across the land. Allow people to hunt the buffalo for food if they want - but you must use a bow or blackpowder rifle, and can only mount a horse or a bicycle.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      A death from arrow wounds is absolutely agonizing, especially for a creature as large as a buffalo - it’s awful that we still allow it. But black powder is much more humane (relatively), and many states have black powder seasons - including several for buffalo. Though if we’re allowing black powder, we really should just let people use proper hunting rounds to minimize the suffering of the animal.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I lack a magic wand, I can’t suddenly stop people from killing altogether. Meat consumption is down, though, and hopefully will continue to fall until it’s a practice we stop as a culture. In the short term though, we should at least try to make sure those pointless deaths come with as little suffering as possible - people are souring to the cruelty of bowhunting, and that is at least a start.

          I don’t really understand how my capacity for language is relevant to that concept, but okay.

          • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            12·
            19 hours ago

            Meat consumption is down

            what makes you think that?

            edit: this user does not, in the course of this discussion, actually prove this claim. they do resort to trolling, and eventually they ignore a request to disengage. read it if you like, but nothing happens except they get more and more abusive.

            • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Numbers, mostly. Meat consumption rose slightly in the US, plateaued across asia and has fallen heavily in europe, which are the only regions I have reliable data for (South America looks unchanged though I don’t have a great source for that - I have no source for African or Oceania meat consumption rates)

                  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                    12·
                    24 hours ago

                    thanks for the reply

                    I didn’t mean to be rude, but I thought short replies were the norm here.

                    I’m just skeptical.

                    I’m very much looking forward to your citations.

                    thank you!

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Black powder isn’t as humane a round if something goes wrong. Way better to hunt with a semi-auto, just in case you need a quick follow up shot.