Great article for anyone who wants some fact-based environmental gems:

● Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress.

● The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land.

● The most important thing for reducing pollution and emissions is moving from wood to coal to petrol to natural gas to uranium.

● 100 per cent renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5 per cent to 50 per cent.

● We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities.

● Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4 per cent.

● Greenpeace didn’t save the whales — switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did.

● “Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300 per cent more emissions.

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