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by Transpire7487 1033 days ago
And thousands of animals also die due to industrial agriculture.
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Especially due to animal agriculture (80% of agricultural lands).

Animal ag is the leading driver of biodiversity loss, deforestation, droughts, water usage, eutrophication etc.

We could switch to plant-based diets, reforest the pastures (the size of both Americas) and stop climate change (together with phase-out of fossil fuels) and store enough carbon in those forests to cause new little ice age and reverse the warming.