In 2020, the amount of human-made mass exceeded the weight of all global living biomass. Explore this infographic breaking down the composition of all human-made materials and the rate of their production. Credit: @markabelan 🎨

Dec 7, 2021 · 10:09 AM UTC

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And plastics are the most important contaminats on Earth …
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This is very interesting indeed!
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George Carlin was right.
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I'm surprised that timber in buildings doesn't show up in the anthropogenic mass?
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I thought you meant something else by "human-made mass"! 😏 Bedtime!
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Pathetic. 1.154 10^12 kg is very far of the 5.972 × 10^24 kg mass of the earth. Way to go, humans. decisionproblem.com/papercli…
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That’s shocking!
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A Question: Do you have an explanation for the difference between 1154Gt anthropogenic mass and 30*10exp12 metric tonnes of technosphere, that can be found here here: repository.si.edu/handle/100… ?
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Idiocrazy