Some useful info to digest over Sunday dinner
29% of Earth is land mass. Of that 29% humans occupy less than 1% of that area. Of the remaining 28% about 40% is pure wilderness. 14% is true desert and 15% has desert like characteristics. 9% is Antarctica. Most of the remaining 22% are agricultural areas. There may be other areas with a human footprint of some kind but it is insignificant in any relation to global warming.
What percentage of the earth is land?
By the most common criteria used (which includes swamps and seasonal dry land), the Earth has a land surface of 144,940,000 km2, which is about 29.2% of the total surface area of the planet.
How much space do cities take up of inhabited land of earth;
Urban areas (1.5%) (148,940,000 km2 land) =2,234,100 km2 Urban areas -------------------- Earth Surface area 510,072,000 km2
148,940,000 km2 land (29.2 %)
361,132,000 km2 water (70.8 % en.wikipedia.org ------------- Land use Percentage
Arable land 13.13%
Permanent crops 4.71%
Permanent pastures 26%
Forests and woodland 32%
Urban areas 1.5%
Other 30%
en.wikipedia.org… ---------- For instance, in 1990, 50% of the human population inhabited less than 3% of the Earth’s icefree
land area isprs.org… What percentage of land on earth is dominated by humans? 29% of Earth is land mass. Of that 29% humans occupy less than 1% of that area. Of the remaining 28% about 40% is pure wilderness. 14% is true desert and 15% has desert like characteristics. 9% is Antarctica. Most of the remaining 22% are agricultural areas. There may be other areas with a human footprint of some kind but it is insignificant in any relation to global warming. wiki.answers.com…
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