We can feed the world without chopping down more forests

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By Nathanael JohnsonDec 8, 2014, 6:01 am105 pts
Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population — cutting down forests, plowing prairies — is a really bad idea. What’s less obvious, and more interesting/troubling, is that farmland expansion is so harmful on so many levels that it’s worth doing just about…

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