🔮 What is a marble?

In my world, a marble is a metaphorical container for a note that I want to share and shape with you. It can be a sketchy idea, an insight, a piece of knowledge, or a question that I consider valuable for my life's ongoing dialogue.

These marbles are never perfect and always a snapshot of a given moment. So, please, feel free to add your perspective at the ⬇️ bottom of the page. I try to follow the 🔮 principles for media movement building.

Read more about my intentions in 🔮 this marble.

In the past, I didn't have a way to share ideas or insights with others. This marbles website is the manifestation of my desire to share intentionally with the world. If you want to do it too, let me know. I can help you.

This note was started on April 26, 2025

Visualizing the ratio of wild mammals to domesticated mammals

This visual was inspired by a statistic I couldn’t believe at first: The vast majority of mammals that live around humans is domesticated and used for human consumption. Only a small fraction of all the mammals around humans lives a “free” or “wild” life.

Disclaimer for the graphic: I know there are a lot of words in the graphic. Please have the patience to read through it. Any suggestions on how to improve it? Leave a comment below.

More statistics on animal agriculture: The visual is rooted in a separate marble for stats on 🔮 animal agriculture.

Insight on creating graphics: learned along the process that I should always add paper references to visuals that are turned into stickers.

I think the visual speaks for itself, but it is easiest to understand as an animation.

Sticker version

Animation

Reference

Greenspoon (2023)

Greenspoon (2023)

Bar-On et al. (2018)

I was originally inspired by the graphic below, but it seems to be outdated, showing higher “wild” mammal values that actually present.

#agriculture #livestock #visualization #illustration

Related Resources:

  • “Eating Our Way to Extinction” is free on Youtube and in many languages and incredibly eye-opening.

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