Out of Proportion

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17042020/earth-day-50-anniversary-coronavirus-denis-hayes

By Evelyn Nieves
Apr 17, 2020

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If you put all the human on the planet on one side of a scale and all the terrestrial wild vertebrates—the elephants and tigers and deer and bears and wolves and elk and zebra and wildebeests and everything else on the other side, humans would outweigh everything else by a ratio of two to one. If you put all our domesticated animals—cows, pigs, chickens, pets—with us on the scale, we would outweigh everything else by a ratio of eight to one.

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