Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
www.theguardian.com
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
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Can we please stop using football pitches as a measurement? Using fucking hectares (or acres) or at least square kilometres when you talk about land sizes like every normal person.
The bad thing about football pitches is, that they dont have a standard size.
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which makes American football fields more appropriate as a unit of area, as they are of fixed size.
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Football pitches (european football ones) do have a standard size, as defined by the Laws of the Game, 105×68m
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Interesting, i looked it up and at least for the German "Bundesliga" (national league) it does not have a standard size. Also the sizes vary for German and international matches.
At least that's what their official website says.
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That's horrifying. If it continues, there will be nowhere to play football.
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Can we not use football fields and such as measurements like filthy Americans? Especially in a freaking academic context.
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Europe is losing basically 7.84x10^6 hamburgers worth of cropland.
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Europe loses about 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) a year to construction. About 9,000 sq km of land – an area the size of Cyprus – was turned green to grey between 2018 and 2023, according to the data. That is the equivalent of almost 30 sq km a week, or 600 football pitches a day.
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A great example of why football pitches are used. People cannot visualize an area of 1500 km², because nobody has ever seen such an area while being aware/told that that is the size of said area.
Most people in Europe knows roughly how large a football pitch is, and might even be able to visualize an area covered by 600 of those.
Although I guess "4km²/day" isn't that bad to visualize either.
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Why the fuck do we have so many football pitches? /j
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they don't anymore.
didn't you read? they are losing 600 per day
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a football pitch in this case is both metric and anglais.
as a yard is roughly equal to a meter.
100x50 meters. 100x50 yards for a football ⚽/🏈 pitch
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There are unfortunately many studies that point all in a similar direction, and it is not a European but a global problem.
In 2024, for example, a map from the Save Soil movement – backed by the UNEP, UNCCD, UNFAO, WFP, and IUCN amongst others – illustrates that 95% of the Earth’s soil is on course to be degraded by 2050.
[Globally] every second, an equivalent of four football fields of healthy soil becomes degraded – adding up to a total of 100 million hectares every year. Non-degraded healthy soil is a direct necessity for 95% of the food production for more than 8 billion people.
For nations across the globe, this degradation is also causing a rapid increase in climate shocks such as droughts, threatening hundreds of millions of lives, crippling livelihoods, and forcing millions of people into migration.
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How much is that in square-fathoms?
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3 barnacles
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Approximately 25000 Renault 10
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No no no, I need that in imperial washing machines.
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FIFA needs to decrease the size of pitches. They are killing our planet with their recklessness