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by tpxl 1764 days ago
My source only looked at the US so numbers differ from global[0]. Your source also says 14.5% is all livestock, of which 9.4% is cattle (so about 3x globally compared to the US).

There are of course other forms of pollution, a big one we could easily tackle I think is water pollution by the textile industry [1]. So much clothing today is of garbage quality and completely unmendable (the fabric is too thin to be repaired ):, I tried).

[0] https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2019...

[1] https://www.textiletoday.com.bd/water-pollution-due-textile-...