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They are, more and more. They richer a country becomes, the more they demand meat and animal products, the more they overconsume resources relative to provided calories/protein.

And who cares about India, when we're already screwing ourselves over well enough: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...

70% of the water used from the Colorado River (which is slowly losing water) is used for crops, and 80% of that is used for feed production. But let's stop taking so many showers, that'll fix the issue.



Thanks for the link, didn't know there's that much feed production in the US

Who cares about India -- hmm, doesn't ground water depletion have quite different consequences:

In the US, there'll be fewer hamburgers. While in India, people will starve, famines?




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