Follow
While beavers & wolves #rewild Western landscapes, #cattle🐄🐂 wear these lands down. #Grazing alters the Earth so much, "we can barely imagine what it looked like before the herds arrived. Forget the Anthropocene; the West is still stuck in the #Beefocene."
#LandAbuse https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-5/the-west-remains-cattle-country/
@grrlscientist
Apparently we learned nothing from the 1930s Dust Bowl disaster, which was another example of overfarming the land. Now tbe whole planet is overworked.