The correct figure for the percentage of the earth's land mass which is actually occupied by humans is .
03%.
This post getting 11 daps is an indictment on this forum.
Way to not count farmland breh.
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
ourworldindata.org
We've overrun more than HALF the land on Earth (not counting uninhabitable deserts and mountains), and fukked up most of the rest
You wanna see the craziest stat for how much we've taken over the planetary ecosystem?
96% of all mammal biomass on Earth is humans and their farm animals.
Take the entire mammal biomass of the entire fukking planet. Every deer, antelope, buffalo, dophin, whale, rodent, bat, rabbit, squirrel, monkey, bear, coyote, elephant, hippo, seal, and kangaroo..... EVERY fukking wild mammal on Earth. Us and our domestic animals outnumber them 24 to 1.
96% of the existing mammal biomass on Earth is just us and our domestic animals. We've directly taken over more than half of the Earth's land area for our own cities, farms, and other operations so that only we can live on it, and wiped out most of the mammals on the remaining land and water too. Everything left on Earth is just a tiny fraction of what once was.
I mean, look at the pigs alone. Just our fukking pigs outweigh all wild mammals on the planet by 3 to 1!!! And cows triple the pigs. And humans are just as numerous as cows (well, really 8x as numerous, cause we weigh 8x less).
I think if some people really understood this graph, it would reframe how they picture environmental issues. We've already pushed up much closer to the breaking point than they realize
