So as an example, roughly 150,000 fungi species have been described, but recent research is indicating that there could be as many as four or five million fungi species. We don't even know the majority of species of fungi, let alone their ecological roles and their relationships.
https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/eileen-crist
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955040/
And now, here I'd like to share some stats from a Nature paper that was published in 2020. In 1900, the technosphere was 3% of Earth's total biomass. Biomass is the weight of all living things. So the technosphere was 3% of that. In 2020, the mass of human-made objects exceeds the weight of all living things on Earth. Buildings and infrastructures weigh more than all the world's trees and shrubs. The mass of plastic is double the biomass of animals.
https://www.wbcsd.org/vision-2050/
Vision 2050: Time to Transform sets a shared vision of a world in which more than 9 billion people are able to live well, within planetary boundaries, by 2050. There's currently over 300 million people in Africa and Asia facing famine from global warming drought - in SubSaharan Africa. What's the the World Business Council for Sustainable Development doing about that? what a joke. "Communities in Africa face a race against the clock: Over 150 million - the daily existence behind that number is bleak. But there is hope. " Mar 4, 2024 — 27.4 million people in southern Africa will face hunger in the next six months due to poor harvests following a series of 14 extreme droughts within the past ...
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