We are the .00018 percent, and we use 20 percent.
via Making Sense of 7 Billion People | Wired Science | Wired.com.
So, we’ve officially hit 7 billion people now, and with all the recent talk of the 1% and the 99% — which I actually find pretty interesting — I thought I’d put a bit of an ecological spin on things.
Taken together, we humans represent a tiny fraction of the earth’s population (the .00018 figure is actually generated in terms of biomass). But we use 20% of the earth’s net terrestrial bioproduction and have 83% of the terrestrial biosphere under our direct influence (if not control).
And we’re all — plants and animals included — occupying earth ….