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Scientific illustrator Mark Balen of @artscistudios has a wonderful new infographic out: The Global Biomass of Mammalian Life

And Earth is full of cows. visualcapitalist.com/biomass-o… #SharedPlanet

The Biomass of All the World’s Mammals by Mark Belan

Visualizing the Biomass of All the World's Mammals

When the world's biomass—the stuff we're made of—is tallied up, humans and cattle outweigh wild mammals by a massive margin.
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Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻
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I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if we died out but they didn't... That could be something fun to explore in fiction.
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Eduardo
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Eduardo
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I’m surprised that goats are above dogs. And that horses are so close to dogs.
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Cykonot
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I still haven't fully relearned baking, but being vegan is far less sacrifice these days

If animal subsidies weren't there, it would be unequivocally cheaper. Growing food to feed your food is inefficient

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Nicole Parsons
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The Saudis have enough money to build desalination plants & grow their own alfalfa.

Yet, instead they went cheap & grow it in Arizona for export to Saudi Arabia.

Why?

Unless this has little to do with cattle & more to do with the real estate money laundering so common between OPEC & Republican billionaire donors?

theguardian.com/us-news/2017/j…

nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/poli…

pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-d…

cbsnews.com/news/saudi-company…


Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water to grow alfalfa amid drought

Foreign-owned farms are shipping the crop to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal to grow because it takes too much water.
Ben Tracy (CBS News)
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
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@bhawthorne Mark has also illustrated the biomass of life on Earth based on that paper
The biomass of life on Earth by Mark Belan
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Geeden_Of_Arden
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Without the humans, there would be no for all that cattle.
I just saw this week that fossil fuels account for 40% of global freight.

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