We’re Not Alone: 8,699,999 other species on Earth
8,700,000: Newest estimate of eukaryotic species on Earth (doesn’t count bacteria, etc.)
1,200,000: Number of species we have catalogued in the past 250 years
$48,500: Estimated cost of cataloguing a species, including paying those pesky scientists
1,200: The number of years it would take to catalogue the rest at this rate (and at a total cost of $364 billion)
I think we need a new system.
(Thanks to Jennifer Jacquet for doing that math for me at SciAm)
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…well, given the rate species are dying off, it’ll be a lot shorter than that.
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