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The [[#Imagined scenario]] above, the total ''farmland'' stays the same but food ''production'' vastly increases. This was chosen ''only'' for simplicity sake. | The [[#Imagined scenario]] above, the total ''farmland'' stays the same but food ''production'' vastly increases. This was chosen ''only'' for simplicity sake. | ||
In actual fact, we don't have to increase food production ''that much''{{x|the existing global food supply [[:File:food-funnel.png|would be]] more than enough if we didn't waste so much food, and if we didn't feed so much food to farm animals}}. We could use the high-yielding crop choices as a way to | In actual fact, we don't have to increase food production ''that much''{{x|the existing global food supply [[:File:food-funnel.png|would be]] more than enough if we didn't waste so much food, and if we didn't feed so much food to farm animals}}. We could use the high-yielding crop choices as a way to need ''less land'' for agriculture. By reducing the demand for [[land]], we could get rid of the economic pressures that cause [[deforestation]]. And besides just forests, it would become easier to preserve wild ecosystems in general.<!-- TALK: I think we should also explore the idea of reducing wild animal suffering, not just preserving nature in its raw (sometimes brutal) form. This is a whole other topic and there's definitely room for it on this wiki. Even in this philosophy, preserving biology still has its benefits, to eventually gather enough scientific knowledge to build [[animal utopias]] on the land we spared from agriculture. --> | ||
==Africa== | ==Africa== | ||