Yet another wake-up statistic - this time courtesy New Scientist. A short article on page 16 of number 3313/14 has the rather depressing news that somewhere between 2014 and 2026 is, or will be, the point at which the mass of human-made stuff on the Earth surpasses the mass of living things. To quote Jeremy Woods of Imperial College "This [study] serves to strongly underline the need for wise and informed human stewardship of the environment". Quite so.
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