"**Our cities and urban areas take up just 1% of the world’s habitable land. Agriculture takes up 50%.** Our biggest footprint on the world’s land is not the space that we ourselves take up, and build our houses on; it’s the land that’s used to grow our food. This is the biggest driver of deforestation, not the rise of urbanisation. ([Location 2362](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=2362))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[urbanisation]], [[food-production]], [[deforrestation]], [[food-emissions]], [[food-security]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]