About half of the world's habitable land is used for agriculture.

Evan Prodromou

About 80% of that agricultural land is used for livestock and silage. The meat produced is less that 20% of humans' caloric intake.

The housing crisis is a meat crisis. If we want more space to live, we should dedicate less land to meat production.

skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸

@evan does that really follow?

Chema Hernández Gil

And the vast majority of the land being used for livestock and their fodder was either previously forested or could be afforested. This matters because afforestation and forest management is the carbon dioxide removal method with the largest sequestration potential in the shortest timescale according to the IPCC.

https://seedthecommons.org/averting-climate-disaster-our-analysis-of-the-ipcc-climate-change-2021-report/

warrows

@evan do you have a source to share supporting that data?

Evan Prodromou

@warrows go search. I'm not your Google.

Evan Prodromou

@felipe does it not?