What's about the economic growth that you find so valuable? Don't you see that money are just stupid tokens in a very stupid game? That the economy is rigged? That healthy environment is much more valuable than. Not enough time before last pieces are gone. > is to provide an alternative path for development that protects the environment while allowing even more economic growth > We can continue to expand even as the natural ecosystem is destroyed > the most rapid rate of economic growth in human history, amidst mass-extinction, huge reductions of natural habitats and the collapse of numerous ecosystems UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’ Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’ The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately > Why won't an increase clean energy production alone solve it? More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970. There's already 80% less insects (in last 25 years), and 90% of sharks are missing (meaning the collapse of fishing populations is on the horizon). It's more bad then people usually realize. Every country on earth has animal ag subsidies, although animal ag is a leading driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, atmospheric pollution (15-25%), eutrophication, soil erosion, and overfishing, all things that dangerously degrade our likelihood to survive. > With that many people, it's even harder to coordinate a unanimous reduction in meat consumption What comes next is the rapid decline of the carrying capacity of the environment and the collapse of the species dependent on that environment. > Once we reach those limits, growth will naturally slow and stop We're so far behind them we can't see the line anymore. > We are nowhere near the limits of the finite environnment Overfishing -> Empty seas in 2040's -> veganismĭeforestation & biodiversity loss -> mainly driven by agriculture -> 80% of agriculture is animal ag (pastures) -> veganism Ĭlimate change -> CO2 + methane + N20 -> 15-26% from agriculture Pollution -> farm runoff, eutrophication, pesticides/herbicides, greenhouse gases. This consideration leads to an even shorter remaining time.Ĭlimate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot. Making the situation even worse, we stress once again that it is unrealistic to think that the decline of the population in a situation of strong environmental degradation would be a non-chaotic and well-ordered decline. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops.Ĭalculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilisation. If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectare. While theoretically possible, it doesn't meet the timescale and amount required. Your solution is technological in nature. That's probably the only feasible option we have at this moment to stop us from environmental collapse. We could switch to plant based diets and free upto 80% of all agriculture lands, some 35% of habitable earth, the area a size of Africa, and reforest/rewild that. Animal ag is driving us towards its collapse, and fast. No, we can't keep current consumption patterns, if we want our civilization to survive. The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds nowĪlmost half of all UK bird species in declineīird Populations Declining Fast Across North AmericaĢ out of 3 North American bird species face extinctionįarmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectaresīiodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption We could significantly reduce the damage by restructuring our diets however, not many people seem to care about that. ) and diet preferences are driving many species, including birds, to extinction. Our farming practices (deforestation, pesticide/herbicide use, insect die offs. not many care about the responsibilities like taking care of nature
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