What goes ‘moo’ and then explodes?

Since the rise of agriculture, humans have increased the mass of animal life on land fourfold, but wild animals now account for only 4 per cent of that biomass.

Within 30 to 50 years, at least half the current agricultural land on the planet will need to be ‘rewilded’ in order to restore the world’s principal carbon sink, and to preserve the biodiversity on which the entire ecosystem depends, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Pexels.com

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 20, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—“When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant, next to a giraffe, next to a rhino,” said professor Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science. “But if I was trying to give them a more realistic sense of the world, it would be a c...

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