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Tag Archives: rangeland
We’ve taken over too much of the planet for pasture and crops
In the article “Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?” by Christopher Kemp in NewScientist, these charts of increasing intensity of pasture and crop land from 5000 BC (18,000,000 population) until 2000 (6,150,000,000 people) show that humans are laying … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, aquifer depletion, biodiversity loss, crops, green house gas emissions, pasture, rangeland, topsoil erosion
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