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Take a look at this: https://imgur.com/gallery/9v4HV2p https://imgur.com/gallery/9v4HV2p There are nearly 8 billion humans on Earth. Can you see the disparity

Take a look at this: https://imgur.com/gallery/9v4HV2p https://imgur.com/gallery/9v4HV2p There are nearly 8 billion humans on Earth. Can you see the disparity? And here is a slice of the result: https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ If you feel like learning more about „The Great Forgetting“, read this: The Once and Future World, by J B MacKinnon (http://jbmackinnon.com/books.html http://jbmackinnon.com/books.html). Contact me if you want the ebook.

fractallyte 6y ago
I'm curious why someone would downvote this. Care to write a proper reply instead? I'm stating facts - why do you disagree?
- rmah 6y ago
  I suspect it's being downvoted because the pixel resolution on the various species included have little to do with how healthy their populations are or are not. For example, it's simply impossible for large predators like tigers to exist by the billions. In short, the presentation is a pure play to emotions with little regard to any actual facts.
  - fractallyte 6y ago
    Thanks, but I disagree! Most of the pixelized animals number in the hundreds or thousands - horrifyingly low. What diversity and ‚culture‘ can exist within those numbers? There can be a ‚healthy‘ population of 1, but it's still extinction for the species. I wish the downvoters would have the courage to speak up.
erichocean 6y ago
> There are nearly 8 billion humans on Earth. Yes, and there's roughly a quadrillion Cyclothone on Earth, a vertebrate fish with 13 species. [0] That's 1,000,000 billion fish vs. 8 billion humans: the fish are winning the population game, and it's not even close. Furthermore, human population projections cap us out around 15 billion in the next century because birth rates go down as population increases—we are naturally self-limiting, like every other species on earth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone

fractallyte 6y ago

I'm curious why someone would downvote this. Care to write a proper reply instead? I'm stating facts - why do you disagree?

rmah 6y ago
I suspect it's being downvoted because the pixel resolution on the various species included have little to do with how healthy their populations are or are not. For example, it's simply impossible for large predators like tigers to exist by the billions. In short, the presentation is a pure play to emotions with little regard to any actual facts.
- fractallyte 6y ago
  Thanks, but I disagree! Most of the pixelized animals number in the hundreds or thousands - horrifyingly low. What diversity and ‚culture‘ can exist within those numbers? There can be a ‚healthy‘ population of 1, but it's still extinction for the species. I wish the downvoters would have the courage to speak up.

erichocean 6y ago

> There are nearly 8 billion humans on Earth. Yes, and there's roughly a quadrillion Cyclothone on Earth, a vertebrate fish with 13 species. [0] That's 1,000,000 billion fish vs. 8 billion humans: the fish are winning the population game, and it's not even close. Furthermore, human population projections cap us out around 15 billion in the next century because birth rates go down as population increases—we are naturally self-limiting, like every other species on earth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone