Results: Humanity Has Killed 83% of All Wild Mammals and Half of All Plants: Study

Despite being such a small part of the planet, humans have been steadily destroying everything else for the past few millennia, the Guardian reports. In fact, humans have caused the annihilation of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants, the authors of the report found. Are you familiar with this story/study reported by The Guardian?

Of the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birds. And of the mammals left in the world, 60% are livestock, 36% are pigs, and a mere 4% are wild. Do these statistical numbers surprise you?

"It is definitely striking, our disproportionate place on Earth," Ron Milo, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel who led the report, told the Guardian. "When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next to a rhino. But if I was trying to give them a more realistic sense of the world, it would be a cow next to a cow next to a cow and then a chicken." Do you agree?

If you're familiar with this, check off which of the sources that are driving the staggering imbalance between domestic and wild animals, that destroy the ecosystem:

Other studies have also documented the decline of animals and plants. For instance, scientists recently argued that the Earth is experiencing its "sixth mass wave of extinction", with billions of local animal populations endangered around the world. Do you believe the sixth mass wave of extinction is happening?

This decline is by no means slowing down. A study published last week found that if temperatures at the end of the century are 3.2 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels, species across the animal kingdom could lose up to half of their geographical ranges. Do you believe that the globe will achieve the 3.2 degree Celsius increase as stated in the statement?

If you've given up eating anything that moves, does it relate to the beginning of the survey?