- December 10, 2020
Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth
Erik Stokstad
HUSEYINTUNCER/ ISTOCK
It’s not just your storage unit that’s packed to the gills. According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff—buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we manufacture—now exceeds the weight of all living things on the planet. And the amount of new material added every week equals the total weight of Earth’s nearly 8 billion people.