Looks like we’re taking more than our share of the vegetables: human activities eat up nearly a quarter of the planet’s plant growth. A study of human impact on ecosystems found that we consume 23.8% of Earth’s land-based net primary production. Agriculture makes up more than half the consumption. The rest is other forms of land use and human-caused fires. This is an unprecedented dominance of the biosphere by a single species, and shows how risky large-scale biofuels production could be for the ecosystem.

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