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The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.

Drawn from what Linus Blomqvist said

Subjectsustainability
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sustainability Whether human wellbeing and environmental impact still have to trade off against each other.

Mental modelCheaper means more, not less

What Linus Blomqvist actually said

  1. Linus Blomqvist Environmental economist at the UC Santa Barbara Bren…
    In sum, land sparing is common at the local level and the norm at the global scale, in contrast to recent appeals to Jevons' paradox.

    Where this was said

    ↗Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Landthebreakthrough.org

    13 Mar 2024

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