[javman]

Have you seen what modern plant farms look like?

Massive water usage, lowering river levels drastically. Some don't even reach the ocean anymore (see the Colorado River, from Wikipedia: "Since 1960, the Colorado has typically dried up before reaching the sea, with the exception of a few wet years."). Aquifers are running low (here's some info on that from 20 years ago: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-103-03/).

Pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

Massive land use for mono-culture farms, displacing whatever wildlife and native plants were present before the farm. Add more farms and you'll have less wildlife.

Everyone switching to plant-based diet sounds nice, but is really not going to fix much. Unless you can change farming to not be so resource intensive? There are just too many people.

[myshpa]

Animal agriculture uses 3x more land than plants.

Do you really think that those things you've listed (water, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, displacing wildlife...) are solely a problem for plant farms? I must have misunderstand you.

> Everyone switching to plant-based diet sounds nice, but is really not going to fix much

We could save 75% of those lands. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

[ajmurmann]

And a lot of the plants we grow are to feed livestock.

[andbberger]

irrelevant given efficiency losses when raising livestock. where do you think the food your chickens eat comes from