HUMANS, JUST .01% OF ALL LIFE, ARE KILLING 83% OF WILD MAMMALS

Humans are a rather insignificant part of the population when it comes to the total amount of life-forms on the Earth. And yet their activities have a very significant effect on all other life forms. The world's population of 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things. Yet from the dawn of time to today, humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants. Human activities have also had a dramatic effect on what type of mammals now populate the Earth. With mammals, 60% are livestock, only 4% are wild mammals.

The destruction of the natural habitat for farming, logging and development has resulted in the start of what many scientists consider the sixth major mass extinction of life on Earth (an extinction caused by human beings). And about half of all the world's animals are thought to have been lost in the last 50 years.

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READ THE STUDY (PNAS)

Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study (The Guardian, 5-21-18)

Humans Less Than 1% of Life on Earth, But Have Destroyed Half of Its Plants, More Than 80% of All Mammals (Common Dreams, 5-22-18)

We Are Just 0.01% of Life on Earth, Yet We Annihilated The Rest of It (Video)

 

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