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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 114 points 2 days ago

Overpopulation is not a myth. 36% of the earth's mammalian biomass is Humans, only 5% is wild mammals. 71% of avian life is livestock. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

Half of all "habitable land" (which includes everything except deserts, tundra, salt flats, beaches, or exposed rock) is used for agriculture. Half of all land, for agriculture. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/12/agriculture-habitable-land/

Industrial farming is not sustainable at the current rate and relies on either mined or petrochemical derived ammonia which supplies the nitrogen necessary for protein. Synthetic Ammonia alone feeds half the world population and requires an additional 2% of the world's power to produce.

The global ecoystem is in rapid decline.

I gave up finding appropriate sources halfway when I realized this post will just get removed eventually.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website -1 points 1 day ago

Humans today are like 300% more biomass than every mammal on earth 100,000 years ago.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

id you perhaps mean to make a dinosaur joke but left out three zeroes?

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