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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a third of cropland is literally dedicated to growing livestock feed

that's not what your source says. and all of agriculture is about 20% of our emissions, but i'd be fine if it were 100%: we need to eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twenty-six percent of the Planet's ice-free land is used for livestock grazing and 33 percent of croplands are used for livestock feed production.

Dude, it's one of the first things written on the first page. Come on now, this is embarassing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

33 percent of croplands are used for livestock feed production.

but not exclusively for livestock feed production. it's not "dedicated".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This is what this user posted and embarrassingly deleted before writing the comment above:

grazing lands aren't croplands

If you can't even be bothered to read a full quote that was handed to you, you aren't discussing in good faith. You can go ahead and fuck off with your hand wavy non-scientific bullshit. Learn to read a source and provide a proper rebuttal with evidence instead of spamming nonsense.

Edit: Oh look I broke the spambot lol

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

this is clearly a bad-faith attempt to avoid the fact that im right: in feeding animals the unwanted parts of our crops, animals actually help conserve water.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

calling me a spambot doesn't change whether i'm right, or you're literate.

[–] PRUSSIA_x86 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

appeal to ridicule