Ending the destruction of our planet is a design challenge
Words by Cyrill Gutsch In December 2020, as an unpredictable year was ending, a monumental but overlooked report was published in the journal Nature . Researchers in Israel released a mind-blowing new assessment showing that human-made material now outweighs Earth’s entire biomass for the first time. The mass of ‘stuff’ we’ve created now exceeds all the plants, animals, fungi and bacteria on our planet combined. While concrete and construction aggregates like gravel make up most of the total, the study found there is now far more plastic on Earth than all land animals and marine creat...
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