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Full Idea
Humans co-opt over forty per cent of the Earth's living tissue.
Gist of Idea
Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human
Source
John Gray (Straw Dogs [2002], 4.15)
Book Ref
Gray,John: 'Straw Dogs' [Granta 2002], p.149
A Reaction
If you add our domestic animals, I understand that the figure goes up to 95 per cent! I take this to be virtually the only significant ecological fact - population, population, population. Why are there so many cars? So many carbon footprints?
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |