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Human Handiwork’s Mass Exceeds World Lifeforms
Human handiwork, all we’ve produced, now outweighs the plants and animals evolved over 3 billion years: a global takeover.
By Tim Radford
Our domination of the planet may have just reached a new level: human handiwork now probably surpasses all that evolution has placed on the Earth. The mass of all the things made by humans − cities, roads, factories, houses, cars, trains, machines, bricks, concrete, steel, glass, tile, asphalt and so on − may have just overtaken the mass of all the living things on the planet.