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Hannah Ritchie
Writer at Our World in Data
Writer at Our World in Data
Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas?
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth’s life – what’s the rest?
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed “peak agricultural land”
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.