Audiobook Demo - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
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people of the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean because after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place. There is 600 times more life on land than there is in the ocean, and this fact mostly comes down to plants. The average ocean plant is one cell that lives for about 20 days. The average land plant is a two ton tree that lives for more than 100 years. The mass ratio of plants to animals in the ocean is close to four, while the ratio on land is closer to 1000 Plant numbers are staggering. There are 80 billion trees just within the protected forests of the western United States. The ratio of trees to people in America is well over 200. As a rule, people live among plants, but they don't really see them. Since I have discovered these numbers, I can see little else. So humor me for a minute and look out your window. What did you see? You probably saw things that people make. These include other people, cars, buildings and sidewalks. Now look again. Did you see something green? If you did, you saw one of the few things left in the world that people cannot make. What you saw was invented more than 400 million years ago near the equator. Perhaps you were lucky enough to see a tree. That tree was designed about 300 million years ago. Now focus your gaze on just one leaf. People don't know how to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one. In the last 10 years, we've cut down more than 50 billion trees, 1/3 of the Earth's land used to be covered in forest. Every 10 years, we cut down about 1% of this total forest, never to be regrown. That represents a land area about the size of France. One France, after another for decades has been wiped from the globe. That's more than one trillion leaves that are ripped from their source of nourishment every single day. And it seems like nobody cares, but we should care. We should care for the same basic reason that we are always bound to care because someone died who didn't have Teoh