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(Created page with "Land usage is a major environmental impact due to habitat loss. Agriculture uses vastly more land than all other human activity combined. Earth Surface * Oceans (% of Earth Surface) * Land (% of Earth Surface) ** Pasture: km^2 (% of Land) ** Cropland: km^2 (% of Land) ** Built-up land: km^2 (% of Land) *** "Built-up" includes all housing (cities, suburbs, towns, etc), buildings, roads, infrastructure and more. <tabs> <tab name="Pasture">File:land-pastu...") |
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[[food|Agriculture]] uses vastly more land than all other human activity combined. | [[food|Agriculture]] uses vastly more land than all other human activity combined. | ||
Earth Surface | ==Statistics== | ||
* Oceans (% of Earth Surface) | |||
* Land (% of Earth Surface) | Earth Surface: 510 million km<sup>2</sup> | ||
** Pasture: km | * Oceans: 361 million km<sup>2</sup> (71% of Earth Surface) | ||
** Cropland: km | * Land: 149 million km<sup>2</sup> (29% of Earth Surface) | ||
** Built-up land: km | ** Pasture: 28 million km<sup>2</sup> (19% of Land) | ||
** Cropland: 15 million km<sup>2</sup> (10% of Land) | |||
** Built-up land: 1.5 million km<sup>2</sup> (1% of Land) | |||
*** "Built-up" includes all housing (cities, suburbs, towns, etc), buildings, roads, infrastructure and more. | *** "Built-up" includes all housing (cities, suburbs, towns, etc), buildings, roads, infrastructure and more. | ||
<small>These numbers are from [https://ourworldindata.org/land-use OurWorldInData]</small> | |||
==Maps== | |||
<tabs> | <tabs> | ||
<tab name="Pasture">[[File:land-pasture1.png]]</tab> | <tab name="Pasture">[[File:land-pasture1.png]]</tab> | ||
<tab name="Cropland">[[File:land-crop1.png]]</tab> | <tab name="Cropland">[[File:land-crop1.png]]</tab> | ||
<tab name="Built-up land">[[File:land-builtup1.png]]</tab> | <tab name="Built-up land">[[File:land-builtup1.png]]</tab> | ||
<tab name="All usage">[[File:land-usage1.png]]</tab> | |||
<tab name="Wilderness">[[File:land-wild1.png]]</tab> | |||
</tabs> | </tabs> | ||
These images were made "in-house" from multiple data sets. To read more, click on an image for the full page about it. | |||