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by smt88 1457 days ago
Animals need enormous amounts of water. If you have water, you can produce plants.

What land specifically is useful for animals, but not capturing carbon or growing plants? Please give a specific example.

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> If you have water, you can produce plants.

Simply untrue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

> What land specifically is useful for animals, but not capturing carbon or growing plants? Please give a specific example.

Careful moving those goal posts, you'll hurt your back. Not a goal anybody set. But here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangeland

Animal farming improved human use of land, and indeed crop farming depends a lot on animal byproducts. Or do you prefer unsustainable mineral fertilizers?