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The Worst Crime in History - by Yuval Noah Harari
Excerpt from the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind...
Link to excerpt: The Worst Crime in History
Today, the majority of large animals on planet earth are domesticated farm animals that live and die as cogs in the wheels of industrial agriculture. Earth is home to about 7 billion humans, weighing together about 300 million tons. It is also home to several dozen billion farm animals – cows, pigs, chickens and so forth – whose total biomass is about 700 millions tons. In contrast, if you took all the large wild animals left on earth – all the penguins, baboons, alligators, dolphins, wolves, tune fish, lions and elephants – and put them on a very large scale, they will weigh together less than 100 million tons.
.....................The disappearance of wildlife is a calamity of unprecedented magnitude, but the plight of the planet’s majority population—the farm animals—is cause for equal concern. In recent years there is growing awareness of the conditions under which these animals live and die, and their fate may well turn out to be the greatest crime in human history. If you measure crimes by the sheer amount of pain and misery they inflict on sentient beings, this radical claim is not implausible.
Related previous post: "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" – 1987 article by Jared Diamond
Related videos:
Yuval Harari's Talk at Google
(Not the best audio on the 2 videos below)
Yuval Noah Harari & Jared Diamond - Part 1
Yuval Noah Harari & Jared Diamond - Part 2
- Links
The inner lives of animals are hard to study. But there is evidence that they may be a lot richer than science once thought. [H/T Will] (LINK) Related previous post: The Worst Crime in History - by Yuval Noah HarariBruce Greenwald Resource Page (LINK)...
- Links
A big thanks to everyone who passed along invites to Inbox by Gmail. I really appreciate it. TED Talk - Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans? (LINK) Related book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Related previous post...
- Links
Robert Wilmers' Letter to Shareholders (LINK) Philosophical Economics: Using Total Return EPS to Decompose Historical S&P 500 Performance (LINK) Bill Gates: We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (LINK) Mystery dust cloud and aurora spotted on...
- Bill Gates Reviews Jared Diamond's Book "the World Until Yesterday"
Diamond starts with the premise that human beings were hunter-gatherers for millions of years, and only settled down when we began farming about 10,000 years ago. So most of our genetic selection has been done in a hunter-gatherer environment. He argues...
- "the Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" – 1987 Article By Jared Diamond
Link to article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From...