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by seanwilson 2111 days ago
> So as the world population grows, so does the consumption.

This includes dairy + meat consumption, where about 70 billion animals are farmed for food each year right now. When someone brings up that humans are overpopulating the planet, I've never heard someone mention that overpopulating the planet with livestock is also an issue.

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Nonsense.

Someone always brings up agricultural emissions.

The Australian government talks about it directly here:

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food/climatechange/au...