🌏 This is our Earth. On it, our population of 7.6 billion humans represent just 0.01% of all living things. Yet, since the dawn of civilization, our tiny presence has contributed substantially to the loss of about 83% of wild mammals and 50% of plants, replacing them with ourselves and our livestock (swipe through to learn more). About half of Earth's animals are thought to have been lost within the last 50 years alone.⠀ ⠀ Our impact on the Earth is so profound and massive, that scientists are proposing a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene, defined by signals like radioactive elements from nuclear bomb tests, plastic pollution, soot from power stations, concrete, and bones (and future fossils) left by the global proliferation of domestic chickens.⠀ ⠀ This #WorldPopulationDay, a gentle reminder: we each have one body, with choices that extend beyond to our one Earth. 🌱🌏💛 #SeedLabs