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Pretty crazy: "That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together."

• jlund-molfese 2y ago
  I’ve always found it striking that livestock and humans are 96% of mammalian biomass. That’s a lot of cows! [0] 0. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
  • cfj 2y ago
    Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0]. [0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/ https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/
  • idlewords 2y ago
    Yo mama so fat...
  • dredmorbius 2y ago
    That's a relatively recent development. Historically humans (and their livestock) were a small fraction of all terrestrial vertebrate biomass, and IIRC tipped into the majority only in the 20th century. It does make one think of the sustainability of that situation however.