The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons

Ars Technica
By Annalee NewitzDec 6, 2016, 6:25 pm63 pts
A. Cearreta We can now quantify how much humans have changed the surface of the planet. A scientific analysis of all the human-made substances on Earth—including "houses, factories, farms, mines, roads, airports and shipping ports, computer systems, [and] discarded waste"—reveals their total mass to be 30…

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