An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
19.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 389 🔁 160 💬 17 📌 12
YouTube video by Dusty Lucite
Heroic Dose #psychedelicrock
Less than 24 hours until my new song and video releases! I spent countless hours of my life animating a blue bee’s head on top of Lon Chaney’s noggin ‘cause I’m weird like that.
youtu.be/zhA7UU3pK8k?...
19.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Word
19.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Way cool!! 🤓🤓Our universe is so amazing and complex. I don’t understand ever wanting to defund science.
19.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the average person is priced out of a cup of coffee, maybe then people will wake up to the fact we’re living in a climate emergency. We are single digit years away from crop instability on a massive level and nobody talks about it.
18.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yikes 😳
18.02.2026 10:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Dusty Lucite
Heroic Dose #psychedelicrock
youtube.com/shorts/n8ypq... New song drops Friday! 🎶🐝🎶🐝
18.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
18.02.2026 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
17.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 5207 🔁 1440 💬 127 📌 35
Right wing dark $ made people think Covid does affect kids so they could get asses back in offices to prop up their commercial real estate. According to JAMA Pediatrics, long Covid is the #1 chronic condition in kids. It causes losses in cognition and immune damage. When will we wake up?
17.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
17.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Dusty Lucite
Heroic Dose #psychedelicrock
youtube.com/shorts/mwiHc... My new song “Heroic Dose” comes out Friday! 🐝🎶🐝🎶
17.02.2026 07:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating 🤓
16.02.2026 01:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think my government declared climate change doesn’t exist today. Yeehaw ‘Merica!!!
🤡🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸🤡☠️
13.02.2026 07:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sorry 23rd largest city in America, you can’t fly out of your own airport because morons need to play with lasers.
12.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WTF?!
11.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New profile pic. Who dis? A lady who got her masters back and is dropping the 1st single off her 5th album on 2/20/26, that’s who! 🎶🐝💙
11.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m so terribly sorry for your loss. Sending you and your family ❤️.
09.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study
Objectives To estimate all cause and cause specific deaths that are attributable to fossil fuel related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels wi...
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.
09.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 179 🔁 101 💬 5 📌 10
These poor babies 💔 😭
09.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If Epstein is Trending, Why Isn’t +1.7°C?
The news cycle has become a hall of mirrors: Epstein, Trumpism, war, outrage, retribution. A thousand scandals designed to keep us anxious, tribal, and tired. We have to hold multiple truths at once: ...
"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt."
#climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...
08.02.2026 06:57 — 👍 1174 🔁 431 💬 76 📌 31
Just because the acute stage of a virus presents as flu or cold like symptom, it doesn’t mean the virus is done hurting your body. We need to fight for neutralizing vaccinations and clean air in shared spaces to prevent this kind of suffering.
07.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Word
07.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He should still be here with us. At 31, he could have been an engineer or astronaut with NASA for many years at this point. He might have been involved with the current Artemis project. That should have been his life.
05.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 163 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 4
I hate that I live in a state with one of the highest vaccine exemption rates for kids. All of this pointless suffering is so stupid.
05.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s wild how much living in the objective truth and reality of this world has become completely optional for so many people.
05.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Washington Post and CBS News just fired their climate reporters. 🙃
05.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Raw milk used to be the leading cause of death of children under the age of 5. Routine pasteurization of milk halved childhood mortality rates.
We are without a doubt on the stupidest timeline of human history. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
04.02.2026 03:58 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.
04.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 833 🔁 162 💬 10 📌 0
Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. http://hallucinophonics.com
Director of Bullard Center Texas Southern University, professor, author of 18 books, NBEJN #HBCU Climate Change Consortium, #ClimateReality Board, AAAS, National Academy of Medicine, TIME Earth Award, Father of Environmental Justice, US Marine Corps Vet.
PDX-based science journalist writing about climate change, food security, land use, biodiversity loss, and diversity in STEM she/her
Signal: ginnyg.04
Stories here: www.virginiagewin.com
Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots. Contact: lisasong.42 on Signal
Sustainability advisor; duck monitor; erstwhile journalist.
Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Dog dad.
Please send tips (not PR pitches) through Signal: jtemple.50
Climate take farmer for Bloomberg Opinion
Bloomberg News climate reporter. Past BuzzFeed News, InsideClimate News. Mom. She/her. Views are my own.
Email: zhirji@bloomberg.net
Signal: zhirji.51
Environmental journalist covering climate and ocean issues at Bloomberg News in San Francisco. Formerly at Participant Media, Fortune, Forbes, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee and other publications. www.toddwoody.com twoody4@bloomberg.net
senior editor at the Atlantic. I think a lot about climate, disease, animals, plants, risk, kids, New York City, and sometimes other cities too
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Yelling the truth about Tennessee.
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Climatologist & Weather Historian.
www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxcrc
Weather news. Climatic statistics and records. By M. Herrera
@extremetemps in all networks
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Welcoming media and local government to Bluesky.