[ijidak]

Wow. That shows how much wildlife we've killed off.

Whales, buffalo, elephants, and the list goes on. In a balanced world, I feel like we shouldn't have more mass than the total of all these massive creatures.

I wonder in what year human biomass passed wild mammal biomass.

[ahartmetz]

Pretty sure it's less the reduced wildlife and more the efficient food production of / for humans. Modern agriculture is crazy efficient compared to grazing, foraging and such - in forests, where the relatively "unproductive" trees get most of the light.