Land use in the US - Lemmy

Source [https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg]

“Food we eat” is half the size of “livestock feed”. Plus look at how small wetlands/deserts are, wetlands especially are essential to climate resillience. What egregiously bad land use, wow. Thanks for this post, it’s great.

It’s just wrong though. Deserts are particularly huge in the West. Essentially the whole states of Arizona and New Mexico, plus parts of Utah and Nevada.

They’re probably inside the “parks” part.

I think you might be on to something with the parks idea. I know California has a Protection Act on the books that covers ours.
California Desert Protection Act of 1994 - Wikipedia