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Choose moderation and unburden the earth December 21, 2020, 7:52 PM IST By Narayani Ganesh A new year never fails to inspire us to get on those weighing scales and make a solemn, earnest resolution to shed the extra kilos. Walk regularly, eat right, exercise, are all on the to-do list at least for a couple of weeks until it all gets forgotten in the hurly burly of life. But what of the weight, the burden, we’ve been heaping on Planet Earth? Do we have any thoughts on shedding those extra kilos before we paint ourselves into a corner? According to scientists researching hum...

The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass Comments Off on The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass The mass of human-produced materials, such as concrete, steel and asphalt, has grown to equal the biomass of all life on the planet, according to a study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Humans are adding new buildings, roads, vehicles and products at a rate that doubles every 20 years. This “concrete jungle” is predicted to weigh more than twice the total biomass of living thing...

The Mass of Human-Made Materials Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass, Weizmann Institute Finds We are doubling the mass of the anthropogenic part of the world every 20 years – and the curve is not flattening Weizmann Institute of Science Newswise — The mass of all human-produced materials – concrete, steel, plastics, asphalt, etc. – has now grown to equal the mass of all life on the planet, its biomass. According to a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, we are exactly at the crossover point, and humans are currently adding buildings, roads, vehicles, and products at ...

When not busy trying to murder humans in The Matrix, the AI program known as Agent Smith took time to pontificate on our nature as a species. You can’t really consider us mammals, he reckoned, because mammals form an equilibrium with their environment. By contrast, humans move to an area and multiply “until every natural resource is consumed,” making us more like a kind of virus. “Human beings are a disease,” he concluded, “a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.” I think, though, that it would be more accurate to describe humanity as a kind of biofilm,...

December 12, 2020 The mass of man-made objects is now greater than that of all biomass by Jake Pearson If there is one thing that humanity is becoming more aware of about this century, it is our influence on the environment. Many of the alarming environmental reports we received Visceral And Easy to understand, Some are very subtle. For example, a new study from Israel says that this year – the mass of man-made objects will exceed all living things on Earth. Patron A team of scientists at the Weissman Institute of Science in the city of Rehove reported on a...