https://ourworldindata.org/soy
Beef, soy and palm oil are responsible for 60% of tropical deforestation
Beef - 2.71 million hectares / year
Soy - 480,000 ha / year (77% for animal feed, just 7% for humans)
Palm Oil - 270,000 ha / year
Wood - 380,000 ha / year (but probably more)
I stopped eating beef for a long time after the vCJD scare. But it was a good excuse to reduce my carbon footprint. Chicken and pork have a much smaller footprint. Now I try to avoid cheap cuts and especially cheap ground beef.
Indonesia and Malaysia together product 84% of the world's output. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/10/02/which-...
PS to all: Don't buy products with palm oil, it kills orangutans.
Although their concerns about Palm Oil weren't (or at least are no longer) about orangutans, they were about child labor.
There is one guy who built a polyculture date palm farm. Date palms, some brambly tree to keep megafauna out, and I forget the rest of the plant species. Except it was habitable by orangs, and semi protected.
https://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_how_to_restore_a_rain...
The moment where he tells the audience to stop clapping for him might be the most respect I’ve gained for anyone in two seconds flat.
That's roughly 75:25
Bloody hands all around.
Maybe, but 50+ years later and we're still following the money. I don't expect humans to collectively change behavior for longer than either of our lifetimes.