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 Reference
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?