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Humans Have Destroyed 83% of Wildlife and Half of All Plants on Earth — study

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Humans Have Destroyed 83% of Wildlife and Half of All Plants on Earth — study

According to one report which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the weight of 7.6 billion humans on the planet Earth makes up only 0.01% of all its biomass. In comparison, according to the report, bacteria make up 13% of all biomass, plants make up for 83%, and all the other forms of life account for 5% of the total weight. According to the Guardian, despite it is such a small part of Earth, humanity has been steadily destroying everything else that is on the planet for the past few millennia. In fact, as the...

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