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> The latter corresponds to a biomass of ∼12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals… This is a nice “wow” statisti

> The latter corresponds to a biomass of ∼12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals… This is a nice “wow” statistic, until you look at how few wild animals are left. https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/

JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Yes I've heard it summarized that land animals are ~50% our livestock and ~46% humans themselves. Leaving 4% wild animals. Puts thoughts of living off the land, surviving a collapse of our food chain, obsoleting animal husbandry etc out the window.
dredmorbius 4y ago
Also how that statistic has changed over the past 12,000 years or so (by Paul Chefurka, with data from Vaclav Smil): <http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Terrestrial-Vertebrate-Biomass.jpg http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Terrestr...> Details: <http://peakoilbarrel.com/confessions-of-a-doomer/ http://peakoilbarrel.com/confessions-of-a-doomer/> <https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-much-of-earths-biomass-is-affected-by-humans/ https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-muc...>