Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface

belloc writes "CNN is reporting on a Wildlife Conservation Society report that states that humans take up 83 percent of the Earth's land surface to live on, farm, mine or fish. The article rerers to a WCS human footprint map, but the WCS site seems to have been CNN'd. Funny: I just got back from a little road trip across the southwest, and from all the nothing you see out there, you would think that 83% is a bit high. I guess Arizona farmlands must look a lot like wild, untouched desert."

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Shouldn't we have a new category?

[Croatian Sensation]

I think the editors should set up a new category for this type of post. We could put posts like this into a "Pseudo-Science" or "Environmentalist Shakedown", or maybe a "Put More Control of Your Land into the Hands of Government Bureaucrats" topic category.

Don't believe a word of what these people say. Their goal is to make sure that land is never used by humans. If they want that, they should buy it and put fences around their land, not have the government spend my money and your money to tell me what I can and cannot do on my own property.