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Human Made Materials Now Outweigh All Living Things On Earth by : Hannah Smith on : 10 Dec 2020 11:18 Pexels It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to know that humans have built a lot of stuff over the centuries, and it looks like our impact on the Earth may have reached a huge, and slightly concerning, milestone. A new study claims that the total mass of human-made materials may now outweigh that of all living things on Earth. And that’s before we even think about how much of the natural world we’ve already destroyed in the process. Advert

Among its other dubious distinctions, the year 2020 marks the approximate tipping point between anthropogenic mass and living biomass, scientists say.

Objects made by humans on planet Earth will weigh more than all living things by the end of this year, say experts. A team at the Weizmann Insitute of Science in Israel has estimated the combined weight of everything humans have manufactured from 1900 to the present day. Unsurprisingly, they found that we have dramatically changed the face of the planet over the last 120 years. Human-made objects added up to just 3 per cent of the Earth’s biomass at the beginning of the 20th century. But now, at the end of 2020, we are at a tipping point where human ‘stuff’ will soon weigh more than th...

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For the first time in history man-made materials now likely outweigh all life on Earth, scientists said Wednesday in research detailing the