Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals
June 4, 2018
A new assessment of all planetary life based on biomass – or weight – has revealed humanity to be ‘both insignificant and utterly dominant’. The Israeli study estimates that the world’s 7.6 billion people make up just 0.01% of the mass of all living things. (Worms have a combined mass three times greater than us.) … More Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals
