Fire, deforestation, and livestock: When the smoke clears
Fire, deforestation, and livestock: When the smoke clears
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104949
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Rafael de Oliveira Silva;L. G. Barioni;D. Moran
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作者：
Rafael de Oliveira Silva;L. G. Barioni;D. Moran
亚马逊最近的火灾助长了媒体的叙事，将政治与本已情绪化的故事联系在一起，将森林砍伐与大规模养牛场和全球肉类消费联系在一起。对2019年火灾原因的仔细研究表明，人们认为砍伐森林和广泛使用土地生产牛肉之间的联系并不像人们通常认为的那样明显。事实上，通过可持续地集约化主要畜牧场来节约土地，可能会在肉类需求和畜牧业生产以及随之而来的土地利用变化和砍伐森林之间起到重要的缓冲作用。善意的牛肉抵制可能会削弱投资于牧场恢复的动机，并可能导致广泛使用土地和增加温室气体排放的反事实。这种可能性表明，有必要就可持续畜牧业生产的土地使用的地区性以及饮食变化的作用进行更微妙的辩论。
Recent Amazon fires fuelled a media narrative combining politics with an already emotive story linking deforestation to extensive cattle ranching and global meat consumption. Scrutiny of the reasons for the 2019 fires suggests that the perceived link between deforestation and extensive land use for beef production is not as clear as commonly supposed. Indeed, land sparing through sustainable intensification of predominant livestock pastures may be acting as a significant buffer between meat demand and livestock production and consequent land use change and deforestation. Well-intentioned beef boycotts potentially weaken the incentive to invest in pasture restoration and may lead to a counterfactual of extensive land use, and increased greenhouse gas emissions. The possibility suggests the need for more nuanced debate about the regional-specificity of land use for sustainable livestock production, and the role of dietary change.