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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About Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics. In 2006 his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. He is the co-author of four books, and contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired.