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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by krainboltgreene on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:16PM (#36766032)
You can say this stuff all you want, but not only do the facts not support it but also the analysis of the facts disproves these statements.
Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by nverno on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:38PM (#36778753)
> half of the earth's habitable land is currently being used for agriculture

This is a fact (to some margin of error). It's indisputable that humans require land to produce food through agriculture, and that amount of required land increases with population size. I'm curious what analysis could possibly show human population growth doesn't result in more wildlife habitat destruction.

Since we stopped being hunter-gatherers, we've required agriculture to support large sedentary populations. Land use by humans/wildlife is generally a zero-sum game.