New Database Quantifies the (negative) Human Impact on the global Environment. Really!

What is the point of this effort? So what! 

Of course, 8 billion humans roaming this planet have some effect on the "biosphere" and some are negative. This is research in search of relevance and useful knowledge!

What is the motivation behind: Humans are villains and need to be put on display like the pillory in the medieval ages! What garbage! Environmentalists and other ideologues have subjected humanity to this Bible like penance for decades now! Repent your sins or else! This is called pseudo religion!

The hamburger as a measuring or reference unit! The Big Mac Index was introduced in 1986 by The Economist to compare prices and exchange rates across the globe, but to take it much further like attempted here by the California Institute of Technology is questionable! 

This is a bunch of pseudoscience! Just notice that they feature the mean sea level rise of approximately 3.4 millimeters per year! This is not better than a measurement error or great pretense of knowledge like the much quoted 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming that needs to be avoided by all means by tomorrow.

"... The Human Impacts Database is designed to be accessible to scientists, policymakers, and everyday citizens, and provides information ranging from global plastic production (4 x 1011 kilograms per year), to the number of cattle on Earth (about 1.6 billion), to global annual mean sea level rise (approximately 3.4 millimeters per year).  ...
"For example, a friend texted me asking how to compare the impact of dairy cattle versus beef cattle," ... "

New Database Quantifies the Human Impact on the Environment | www.caltech.edu If you are in a major city anywhere in the world, it is probably quite easy to grab a cheap hamburger from a nearby fast-food restaurant. [What kind of nonsense is this??? I bet hamburgers in low income countries are not cheap and not affordable to many inhabitants] But what you may not realize is that the meat in that cheap burger can actually illustrate a grand narrative about how humans have shaped the planet. From the land used to raise cattle for beef consumption, to the water used to feed those cattle, to the fuel used to transport the beef all over the world, the human progress that enables us to easily buy a burger—and, for that matter, hop on a plane, charge our phones, and take part in the multitude of activities that make up our everyday experiences—has changed the biosphere.