Feb 27, 2020
When people settled down in the Neolithic Age to practiced farming and cattle breeding, they started a process that changed the face of the world once and for all. Today, satellite images allow us to have a literally global view of the consequences of human activity: Agricultural areas cover large parts of the earth's surface with geometric patterns, megacities grow over seemingly endless surfaces, roads wind their way through high mountains and deserts. The so-called "technosphere", the man-made things, now weighs more than all animals and plants. Statistically, ...