![]() ![]() ![]() We are, biologists warn, entering the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history. Our planetary changes are on such a scale that one in five species is now threatened with extinction, roughly 1,000 times the natural rate. We are the most numerous big animal on earth and the next in line are the animals we’ve created through breeding to feed and serve us. ![]() In this new human age, the Anthropocene, we use more than half of the world’s land for our food, cities, roads and mining we use more than 40% of the planet’s net primary productivity (that’s everything produced by plants and animals) and we control three-quarters of all fresh water. Since 1970, the world’s wildlife populations have halved, and it’s not slowing down. H umans now dominate the planet so heavily that we are pushing wild animals and plants into oblivion. ![]()
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