Earth Is Not For Humans Only
— by Swastika Singh
The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to a study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds.
The transformation of the planet by human activity has led scientists to the brink of declaring a new geological era – the Anthropocene. The farmed poultry today makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% being wild. The picture is even more stark for mammals – 60% of all ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Essays
- 1 Changing Contours of India’s Foreign Policy: Imperatives & Implications
- 2 "India's Unstable Neighbourhood: Strategic and Economic Implications"
- 3 Role of Research and Innovation in India’s Economic Growth
- 4 Press Freedom in India: Myth or Reality?
- 5 Role of Judiciary in Promoting Democracy in India
- 6 Jan Bhagidari as a Model of Effective Local Governance
- 7 India is no longer a Country languishing largely in ‘Extreme Poverty’; it is a Country with ‘Pervasive Inequality’
- 8 Right to Healthy and Sustainable Environment
- 9 World is a ‘Global Village’
- 10 Rise of Blockchain Technology: A Threat or an Opportunity?
