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Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by air7 on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:24PM (#24447461)
That might be over pessimistic as "95% Of The World's Population Lives On 10% Of The Land"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217192745.h...

Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by nostromo on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:35PM (#24447560)
And what about land we use for food. And for watersheds. And for lumber and metal. And for electricity.

The amount of land we live on is tiny compared to the amount of land we use.

Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by hh3k0 on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:34PM (#24447556)
The important part of that statement is "lives".

According to the IPCC, humans have transformed _more than 70%_ of all ice-free land if you take stuff like agriculture into account.

Edit: It'd seem that I've had remembered outdated figures.

Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by andai on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:26PM (#24448396)
What's the latest stat?
Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by hh3k0 on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:30PM (#24448787)
Ah, sorry. It'd seem that my edit note was confusing.

The >70% figure mentioned in my previous comment is recent (2019).

Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by bosswipe on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:22PM (#24448381)
We don't live on land that looks like this but it's destroying biodiversity anyway https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/general-view-t...
Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by 0-_-0 on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:38PM (#24448487)
To be fair, that's a desert so technically speaking agriculture increases biodiversity there
Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by bosswipe on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:28PM (#24448769)
Ok maybe something like this makes my point better since it shows a town where we live and outside of town where we don't live https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/u...
Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by titzer on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:31PM (#24448792)
Biomass maybe, but biodiversity no. There is a myriad array of weird desert things adapted to such a climate, just not huge numbers of them.
Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by elihu on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:34PM (#24447559)
Still, even sparsely populated rural humans have a pretty big effect on the natural habitat. We've pretty significantly displaced wild animals with humans/livestock/pets everywhere: https://xkcd.com/1338/