Breathing Earth is a hypnotically disquieting, real time display of carbon dioxide emissions, births, and deaths by country, with a nice use of audio to augment the visuals.

Update: It’s especially interesting to watch the US and China competing head to head on carbon dioxide emissions. One thing doesn’t seem quite right though– the birth counter seems to go up a LOT faster (around 4x) than the death counter. The current global population growth rate is 1.3% a year, so it doesn’t seem that a given time interval the deaths and births shouldn’t be that far out of balance. Below is a nice image of population over time.