This Land Is the Only Land There Is, Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic:
This Land Is the Only Land There Is
the human demand for food, meat, clothes, and warmth now consumes at least 25 percent of the net product of photosynthesis on land. The free-wheeling, far-reaching maw of our material metabolism—that thing we normally call the global economy—devours as many as one out of every three sugar molecules made by dirt-bound plants, on net … we have roughly hooked one out of every four of [plants] into our planetary system of consumption and speculative exchange
I was immediately reminded of my post on biomass: “humans … will harvest roughly 17 percent of what the biosphere grows this year”.
We are the aliens ravaging the Earth.
#Climate
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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-08-14 13:15 UTC