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Re:The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI by scottyah on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:40PM (#47506397)
One crazy thing I recently heard that put this into perspective is that Livestock makes up approximately 60% to 62% of the world's total mammal biomass. Combined with humans (approx. 34%–36%), domesticated livestock means humans and their animals constitute roughly 96% of all mammalian biomass on Earth, leaving wild mammals at only about 4%.

I suppose Frontier living doesn't necessitate hunting, but the amount of readily available meat and animal products would have to drop very low.

Re:The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI by CalRobert on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:21AM (#47517718)
This is the small solace I take when it comes to climate change reducing arable land - almost all of our crops are grown to supply a luxury product (meat), so if we need to, presumably we could just eat the grains we grow directly, instead of turning them in to animals first.