Bread and Circuses on Nostr: Humans and our livestock (plus our pets) now comprise 96% of all mammals still living ...
Humans and our livestock (plus our pets) now comprise 96% of all mammals still living on Earth, by body mass. Only 4% are wild animals.
SOURCE -- https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.html
That’s WAY out of line with anything except very recent history. Throughout almost all of our existence as a species, humans lived in a generally stable balance with our surroundings, existing as a *part* of Nature, rather than being at *war* with it.
But that began to change with the rise of civilization ~10,000 years ago, and got much worse in the last few centuries with the growth of industrialization, finally exploding out of control in the past 50 years or so. And it’s totally unsustainable. Anyone can see that.
You and I, along with our 8 billion friends and neighbors, are Icarus, flying too close to the Sun. The wax on our wings is melting, and we are — all of us — about to come crashing down.
Whose great idea was this, anyway? 🤔
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Pollution #Biodiversity
SOURCE -- https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.html
That’s WAY out of line with anything except very recent history. Throughout almost all of our existence as a species, humans lived in a generally stable balance with our surroundings, existing as a *part* of Nature, rather than being at *war* with it.
But that began to change with the rise of civilization ~10,000 years ago, and got much worse in the last few centuries with the growth of industrialization, finally exploding out of control in the past 50 years or so. And it’s totally unsustainable. Anyone can see that.
You and I, along with our 8 billion friends and neighbors, are Icarus, flying too close to the Sun. The wax on our wings is melting, and we are — all of us — about to come crashing down.
Whose great idea was this, anyway? 🤔
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Pollution #Biodiversity