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		asdff on Aug 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Merid... Whether they grow soybeans or beef or doing whatever they are cutting the same amount of trees. The crop choice doesn't change the fact that forests aren't protected, and the market will expand to fill available space like a gas.

hypertele-Xii on Aug 6, 2021 [–]

Have you ever cut a tree? It's hard work. No one clears forest unless it makes for profit. If beef doesn't sell, there's no need for excess farmland.

asdff on Aug 9, 2021 | [–]

If beef doesn't sell the landowner will grow something else that does sell. They own the land, they don't want it to sit idle.

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