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.

  • 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·
        1 day 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·
          15 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·
            23 hours 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·
                  20 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!

                  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    20 hours ago

                    This thread is averaging paragraph length responses, what could have given you the idea that short-form demands for citations on claims you could verify with a trivial web search was the norm here? That seems like total BS to cover for being called out over your habit of rather arrogant sealioning.

                    There’s a great deal more data available which also supports my conclusions, I encourage you to engage with the subject matter directly in light of that.

    • 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.