Just in my lifetime the amount of bugs has dropped so drastically and alarmingly. It is truly troubling.

Since the graphic is showing ballooning land use for agriculture:

• “If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares”.
• According to a very robust meta-analysis by Poore & Nemecek (2018) (full access via ResearchGate): “it takes 50 to 100 times as much land to produce a kilocalorie of beef or lamb versus plant-based alternatives.” (quote by OurWorldInData)
• Also per Poore & Nemecek (quote by BBC News): “Producing a glass of dairy milk every day for a year requires 650 sq m (7,000 sq ft) of land, […] more than 10 times as much as the same amount of oat milk”
• Animal agriculture’s extensive land use is creating a “carbon opportunity cost” by not allowing reforestation, per Hayek et al. 2020.
  • Per the linked study: “Animal agriculture across all continents and income categories represents a profound trade-off [emphasis mine] when compared with potential GHG mitigation.”

People who resort to “not every type of land can support plant-based agriculture” simply fail to realize the enormous difference in scale.

I could keep going, but I instead recommend reading the two linked studies and/or the OurWorldInData article which uses them among others as sources. I’ve never bothered to compile land use sources, so I apologize this isn’t more thorough. Needless to say, however, the effects are catastrophic.

The tetm is shifting baseline syndrome

This is inaccurate because that farmland would all be scraped clean and have a few thousand McMansions on it by now.