Charles C. Mann Quote

Rocketing up the growth curve, humankind every year takes ever more of the earth’s richness. An often quoted estimate by a team of Stanford biologists is that humans grab about 40% of the present net primary production in terrestrial ecosystems—40 percent of the entire world’s output of land plants and animals.

Charles C. Mann

Rocketing up the growth curve, humankind every year takes ever more of the earth’s richness. An often quoted estimate by a team of Stanford biologists is that humans grab about 40% of the present net primary production in terrestrial ecosystems—40 percent of the entire world’s output of land plants and animals.

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