The World Around Us

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Altogether about 200,000 wild wolves still roam the earth, but there are more than 400 million domesticated dogs.1 The world contains 40,000 lions compared to 600 million house cats; 900,000 African buffalo versus 1.5 billion domesticated cows; 50 million penguins and 20 billion chickens.

We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one.

AI could consume up to 3.5% of the world’s electricity by 2030, according to an estimate from IT research and consulting firm Gartner.