Rusten Hogness
@rusten.bsky.social
Retired science writer and radio producer. Currently tutoring men incarcerated in California state prisons.
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California Bird Talk: http://www.hogradio.org/CalBirdTalk/
Gleaning Stories: https://humwp.ucsc.edu/gleaningstories/
Note that in my lifetime, human population has grown over 4 times, meat consumption has probably grown 6 times or more, and wild mammals have probably lost half their numbers. The graphic would look very different if it represented the situation right after WWII, before the Great Acceleration.
December 13, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Note that in my lifetime, human population has grown over 4 times, meat consumption has probably grown 6 times or more, and wild mammals have probably lost half their numbers. The graphic would look very different if it represented the situation right after WWII, before the Great Acceleration.
Graphic for previous post.
December 13, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Graphic for previous post.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
This study is on the biomass of wild mammals, but the graphic showing the relative biomass of wild (land and sea) mammals dwarfed by the biomass of us humans and our meat and domestic animals is telling.
This study is on the biomass of wild mammals, but the graphic showing the relative biomass of wild (land and sea) mammals dwarfed by the biomass of us humans and our meat and domestic animals is telling.
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December 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
This study is on the biomass of wild mammals, but the graphic showing the relative biomass of wild (land and sea) mammals dwarfed by the biomass of us humans and our meat and domestic animals is telling.
This study is on the biomass of wild mammals, but the graphic showing the relative biomass of wild (land and sea) mammals dwarfed by the biomass of us humans and our meat and domestic animals is telling.
