DonFerrari said:
Not sure how accurate your source is... But Brazil is among the biggest productor of both crop and cattle in the world. And here are our official statistics http://g1.globo.com/mato-grosso-do-sul/noticia/2017/01/vegetacao-nativa-preservada-ocupa-61-da-area-do-brasil-diz-embrapa.html 61% of brazilian area is still original vegetation, breakdown: 11% of country area is preservation of native on rural properties 17% of country area is conservation area of native vegetation 13% of country area is native vegetation in Indian properties 20% of country area is area that isn't used at the moment So we have 39% of area that isn't native vegetation, breakdown: 8% of country area for Crops and artificial forest (like pine for paper) 19,7% for cattle 11,3% cities, infrastructure, mining, etc.
So our agriculture have 11+19.7+8 = 38.7% of the country area with 1/3 mandatory original vegetation. So nope, our farmers aren't destroying the environment. This one https://www.embrapa.br/en/car/sintese have figures that would be easier for someone not brazilian to understand. Basically shows that about 50% of the rural properties are used for production and the rest is preservation or original. Cities otherwise are about 0% preservation of nature. |
Source is "UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Statistics". Seems pretty trustworthy to me.
Anyways, I don't really see how your post contradicts this source, or how it has anything to do with what I said at all?
