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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by RGamma on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:10PM (#28624118)
And then in Germany... Fly over with Google Earth or similar.

It's basically all farms and cities now. Several of the forests left are mere tree plantations.

Perhaps one day the yearly reminder that our forests are dying will stop because there's none left.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by Jensson on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:11PM (#28624513)
European forest area has actually increased as modern farming made land use more efficient so we could reduce farm area. The forests were cut down centuries ago. All farming in Europe has to be sustainable since there is no farmland left to expand into.

https://ourworldindata.org/exports/forest-area-as-share-of-l...

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by RGamma on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:49PM (#28624746)
Given the satellite pictures I'm looking at, that graph cannot really comfort me, but thanks for trying.
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