As the number of Homo sapiens on this planet approached 8 Billion it is at the expense of the our surviving fauna.
A look at the biomass and numbers puts it in stark relief.
8 Billion humans have a combined mass of just over 300 million tons.
Our farm animals (cows, horses, chickens, pigs, goats, oxen, sheep etc.) have a mass of over 700 million tons.
An estimate of the mass of all the surviving wild animals – from the rhinos, elephants, penguins, chimps, and gorillas to the whales, monkeys and pigeons – comes to around 100 million tons.
How do you think that would have looked a bare two hundred years ago?
What will it look like in two hundred years time?
(Thank you Noah Harari)
It will look like the movie Elysium. That movie still haunts me.
I think Asimov’s dystopia of Caves of Steel is beginning to look like the ultimate outcome. I don’t like to think about it.
such an important issue we need to tackle asap! great post by the way 👌
Thank you. I just wish that a lot more people took it seriously.