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How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis | As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce. (www.nytimes.com)

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These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Produce less people. Reducing the per person carbon production is meaningless when we keep adding people. In 1950, there way 1/3rd less people and less than half the number of Americans.

We have eaten animal protein for millennia. It was instrumental to our evolution. It’s only a problem now that we have way too many people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’re already reducing population. In order to stave off disaster without atrocity we will need to accept lifestyle changes. Groundwater issues are a problem now, not in a generation. And there have been vegans and vegetarians for millennia too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Growth is slowing, but we are far from reducing. The numbers continue to climb: https://www.census.gov/popclock/world