I mean "crowded" is relative, but yeah I'd say we're crowding the planet. There's precious little wilderness left [1]. Livestock outweighs wild mammals by a fac

I mean "crowded" is relative, but yeah I'd say we're crowding the planet. There's precious little wilderness left [1]. Livestock outweighs wild mammals by a factor of 10:1 [2]. The chicken is the most common bird, 15x the runner up [3]. Flying insects are down 75% or more since ~1990 [4]. The reefs are dying, we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere and cooking the planet, there's plastic getting everywhere in the ocean. Maybe "crowded" is a loaded term and I can see why someone might object when they drive through the countryside and all they can see is miles of roads and fields, but we're stripping the planet of biodiversity, and gobbling all the resources we can. We're shifting the planet is shifting from a biological system to an industrial one. It's not all bad, and at heart I really do believe humans are the most precious creature here, but we're shitting the bed and spoiling our own cradle. Lately, nuclear has started looking like a necessary tool if we're going to have any chance at tackling climate change. 1. https://www.science.org/content/article/just-19-earth-s-land-still-wild-analysis-suggests https://www.science.org/content/article/just-19-earth-s-land... 2. https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth 3. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-populous-bird-species-in-the-world.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-populous-bird-speci... 4. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...