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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: DougDoug Date: Sep 8, 2008 23:11
On 8 Sep, 17:49, "nightjar" .me.uk>
wrote:
>> "nightjar" .me.uk> gurgled happily, sounding
>> much like they were saying:
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>>> I've not included the 5900 tonnes resulting from land clearanace, as
>>> that would apply whichever type of agriculture is to be put on it.
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>> Not necessarily, since it's perfectly possible for livestock to graze
>> amongst trees etc. Or, if goat meat became more acceptable, on uncleared
>> scrubland...
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>> OTOH, if you're planting crops, you definitely need to be clearing the
>> land. It's much more prevalent, of course, amongst third-world countries
>> wishing to develop global food export trade.
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> It was difficult to quantify different land uses for the clearances from the
> figures available and I didn't want to complicate things too much for Doug.
> He seems to believe that any land that can be used to raise animals can be
> used to grow food crops as it is.
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What you seem to be overlooking is the land used to crow crops to feed
to animals, a highly inefficient process where the same land could be
used to feed humans directly. Also, land that can grow lush grass can
also grow food crops.
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