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David Ho @davidho@mastodon.world

I think about this map a lot.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

ts @tsyum@thepit.social

@davidho this makes me think of the land we dedicate to (mostly storing) cars and trucks, when we could have amazing transportation

aroom @aroom@tooting.ch

@tsyum @davidho do you see the big yellow square? what a waste of ground use, without accounting for all the other pollution that cattle produce...

27 févr. 2025, 20:12·

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Howard Chu @ Symas @hyc@mastodon.social

@aroom @tsyum @davidho that's not necessarily wasted ground https://mastodon.social/@hyc/113947367103712302

MastodonHoward Chu @ Symas (@hyc@mastodon.social)@VeroniqueB99 it's an interesting factoid, but not enough context. How much of that land can support vegetable crops that people eat? A lot of that land will only sustain low value grass and corn, and only a critter with 7 stomachs can digest it enough to extract useful nutrients out of it.

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