Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

  • urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
  • agriculture is 48m km²,

so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that's 98%. The remaining 2% are all streets and housing and other infrastructure together.

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[–] 35 points 10 months ago

You can see this very clearly flying almost anywhere. It's most obvious in places like the Midwest US, but even between cities in more densely populated regions, there's so much farmland. Islands of concrete in oceans of ordered crop fields.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Weird to include textile farming with meats. Sure wool is a textile, but so is cotton, flax, wood fibre, jute, hemp etc.

    It would have made more sense to divide agriculture into food agriculture and non-food agriculture. And then go into calorie supply.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    i think the reason for that might be that some native communities actually use the same animal for multiple products, i.e. using sheep for their wool but also for their meat.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Well done for mentioning hemp. Hemp's actually a great example confounding the over-simplified division, being great for both food production and non-food production, like sheep too (for wool and meat). Efficient use would not be wasting anything from any production, further confounding the over-simplified division. Capitalist big industry has a bad habit of not doing that kind of efficiency though.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Why are lakes, rivers, and coastal water bodies under habitable land?

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