[Skybird]

However, he has valid points. Erosion of fertile ground is a major porbolem, and the consumption of sweet water and how it effects the ground water level in agricultural and life stock hotspot is a knownand illustrated problem. History also shows how overuse of agricultural ressources and abuse of farmnland and natural vegetation has led to erosion that in the end sometimes even has led to the complete wipeout of the local civilisation. The Indians in Chaco Canyon. The Mayans. The Norseman on Greenland. Iceland until today. Australia (salienation). Africa. Easter Island. The Western half of Hispaniola - nowadays better known as Haiti.

It is not half as esoteric as you try to make it appear, guys. It's bitter reality. And it is dramatic.

As I already said above: if helping existential and environmental questions gives you a bad conscience and makes you feel ill, eat less meat for a much more egoist reason: do it for your own health benefit.