Weighty matters ...
I have due regard for my 'footprint'? |
"The weight of roads, buildings and other constructed or manufactured materials is doubling roughly every 20 years, and authors of the research said it currently weighed 1.1 teratonnes (1.1 trillion tonnes)." |
Our 'footprint'? | Our 'footprint'? |
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-manmade-mass-outweighs-life-earth.html
My source: several
Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3010-5 , www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5