From waitbutwhy.com:

The Earth is almost the best planet ever. Unfortunately, you can’t be the best planet ever when your clearest defining characteristic is a revolting worldwide bug infestation. On what’s not that big a planet, there are 10-quintillion bugs, or 1.5-billion bugs for every living human, and they make up 80% of the world’s species...

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