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| Lisa Brown for NPR |
In a recent NPR article Between Pigs and And Anchovies, Where Humans Rank on the Food Chain , Michaeleen Doucleff reports on how, the first time, ecologists have calculated exactly where humans rank on the food chain and how it's been changing over the past 50 years. Spoiler alert: it ain't us.
With a rise in wealth of developing nations, as a planetary-wide species, humankinds' meat to plant ratio is increasing. This increase, however, will not save us from hungry bears whose meat to plant ratio dwarfs ours...but with far less global degradation.
For a far more competent report, read the full text here: www.npr.org/blogs
I agree that human are not the first link. The food chain starts with the plant that are the ultimate source of getting food and energy. So the food chain starts from mother nature directly.
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