How do we use the Earth’s land?

“There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.

That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity.”

https://blog.datawrapper.de/land-use-animal-agriculture/

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