Of the mammals alive on Earth today, the study revealed that just 4 percent are wild animals…a whopping 60 percent are livestock kept by humans.” ~ One Green

A summary of a new study, recently published in The Guardian, is titled, “Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study.”

The study finds that humans — Earth’s 7.6 billion people are just 0.01 percent of Earth’s biomass — have since emerging on Earth wiped out 83 percent of wild animals and 50 percent of wild plants. Humans have destroyed 80 percent of marine mammals and 15 percent of fish.

Livestock are now 60 percent of mammal life on the planet, humans are 36 percent, and wild mammals are just 4 percent.

Seventy percent of birds now on Earth are farmed poultry. Just 30 percent are wild birds.

That imbalance and monoculture extends to the destruction of…