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wait, your statement is that 98% of biomass attributable to humans is humans + livestock + pets? What about tree farms & edible crops? If cows are 70% water I
by awinter-py 10y ago
wait, your statement is that 98% of biomass attributable to humans is humans + livestock + pets?
What about tree farms & edible crops? If cows are 70% water I imagine the other 30% is made out of corn.
What about landfills?
- CydeWeys 10y agoIt's not my statement, it's someone else's. And, to clarify, it's not all biomass, it's terrestrial animal biomass. So crops and such don't matter, there aren't many living animals in landfills (not enough to matter anyway), and it doesn't matter what the cow ate, it's still a cow.
- awinter-py 10y agoIf it's just animals, this number should be 100%. Are they ruling out service animals? Also, I think this 'terrestrial animal mass attributable to humans' figure has no bearing on the spider stat. Unless we're saying spiders are attributable to humans because of our effect on the fly population.
- CydeWeys 10y agoWhy would it be 100%? There are plenty of wild animals out there. That you mention service animals leads me to believe that you're misunderstanding the statistic; service animals are a negligibly small portion of all total terrestrial animals. And it's important to compare multiple different stats that sort of deal with the same thing as a way of helping to evaluate a new claim, to see if it's internally consistent.