Impact dashboard
Baseline measures of our impact
By Garry Jolley-Rogers
January 1, 2021
on the living world
Our impacts on biodiversity are profound and manifold. Apparent even in the simple measure of total mass of wild and domestic animals.
Humans and livestock now exceed many times the global combined weight of wild birds and mammals.
So in the very recent past, the whole earth ecosystem has changed. Much of the past flow of energy and resources has been routed permanently to service a growing human population. On geological scales, rapid and ongoing. with worrying implications for all animal life.
Context. .16 GT carbon ~ 8% of the worlds animal biomass
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