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I know this is unsatisfying, but I suspect that our approach to conservation will soon be "remember to slap the genome on S3 before turning their habitat into farmland".

Nature is gradually turning into a luxury we cannot afford.

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> Nature is gradually turning into a luxury we cannot afford.

That makes no sense. We need nature more than ever.

There are more people than ever. That want to eat farmed food. Drive on roads. And live in houses. All of this takes land.

Then there is the renewable energy production that needs land too. Rivers valleys turn into hydro dams. Grass fields into solar fields.

Renewable energy production takes a minuscule amount of land compared to agriculture, and a lot of that land can be things like parking lots and roofs.

and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)

Due to the situation in Ukraine (big exporter of vegetable oil), the world is currently quite dependent on palm oil. You know the one they cut down rainforests to make. It was interesting to follow the politics around the Indonesia's temporary export ban back in May.

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