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Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

40% huh? Where have I heard that percentage before...

The proportion of water used to produce animal products is not small. In fact, it’s estimated that meat and dairy are responsible for around a third to 40 per cent of agriculture’s water demands. Given that animal products only provide 18 per cent of the world’s calories this is an inefficient use of an extremely limited resource.

Capital will literally destroy this planet in order to "profit" from cars and carnism.

[–] Duamerthrax 4 points 2 hours ago

Well, yes, but many regions that are going to have water supply issues aren't near the animal ag farms. Closing a dairy farm in New Hampshire isn't going to help things in central Africa. The bigger culprit is Climate Change bringing dry air flows to areas that previously had more humidity and precipitation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

unsurprisingly, this "research" is also infected by poore-nemecek 2018

[–] TheTechnician27 1 points 48 seconds ago

To clarify what this user is referring to, Poore & Nemecek 2018 is a recent, widely cited meta-analysis covering over 1530 studies assessing the environmental impacts of food. It's published in one of the world's top academic journals – Science – and authored by Dr. Joseph Poore, the director of the University of Oxford’s food sustainability program, and Dr. Tomas Nemecek, an expert on agroecology and life cycle assessments from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

They somehow constantly appear like a spectre whenever this study gets brought up to try to spread FUD about it through vague and unsubstantiated nonsense. They do this because it's extremely compelling, effectively unambiguous evidence that many animal products such as dairy are abysmal for the climate ("because it's devastating to my case!"). I highly encourage anyone interested to read it for themselves. The article is paywalled, but Dr. Poore hosts it for free through their personal website, so you don't have to take either of our word for it.