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Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by BurningFrog on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:55AM (#32519890)
> Furthermore, livestock agriculture is one of the leading causes of the collapse of biodiversity - a crisis that will have much more dire consequences than climate change, in my opinion. Also a crisis that almost nobody is aware of presently.

I see no clear reason why fewer species existing in agricultural production areas will lead to any particular disasters, but I'm happy to be enlightened.

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Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by pjc50 on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:07AM (#32519984)
Many of those species are pollinator species. Others have different ecological roles.

The classic example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign : in that case, exterminating species in agricultural areas was intentional, but the results were not.

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Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by BurningFrog on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:38AM (#32520234)
I think of a wheat field a bit like a factory floor.

There is little biodiversity inside the factory. Few species thrive there. But that doesn't mean life outside of the factory is doomed.

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