Our Earth is bearing a weight of 1.1 trillion metric tons

New delhi date. 11 December 2020, Friday

Of the eight planets in the solar system, Earth is the only one on which there is life. At the center of the discussion is often the pressure of living and non-living things on Earth. That is how many metric tons of load the earth can bear.

According to the report, the amount of living things on Earth has become exactly the same as artificial things, which means that the pressure on the earth has increased somewhat. Humanity needs to reduce the footprint of its own planet according to environmental protection. Now a new study has found that footprints are really massive.

The total load on Earth is 1.1 trillion metric tons (1.2 trillion American tons) and nothing much has changed in recent years. Synthetic materials such as anthropogenic mass are increasing rapidly. The weight of everything from concrete pavements and glass metal, skyscrapers to plastic bottles, clothes and computers is now equal to the weight of living things on earth and could increase this year.

This discovery may reinforce the argument that the Earth has entered Anthropocene, a proposed underground age in which humans are the dominant force shaping the planet. The world is going through a physical transition that happens not just once in a lifetime but once in a lifetime, according to Ron Milo, a senior Israeli study author at the Regevot of the Weizmann Institute of Science. While this is more symbolic than scientifically meaningful, the physical measure of human endeavor helps explain how we have succeeded in changing the global nutrient cycle, changing the climate, and bringing numerous species into extinction.

This is not the first attempt to weigh the impact of humanity on the planet. In 2016, a team of scientists estimated the weight of the technosphere, not only by looking at completely artificial buildings and products, but also at the estimated weight of the city, trees, plants, crops we have dug to grow crops, and the seafloor that we have excavated, modified or trapped. Catch fish. They came up with figures of 30 trillion tons. Another recent study has tracked changes in the biological world. Such as the amount of carbon stored in plants or the number of chickens on the planet.