Breathing Earth: Real time display of carbon dioxide emissions, births, and deaths
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.
3 Comments so far
Leave a comment
Absolutely amazing, and weird to see. I had my mouth hanging open while watching it.
Thanks. It’s very powerful to be able to actually visualize what’s going on in the world in this way.
By Steve Habib Rose on 09.27.06 11:55 am
One thing that seemed to be missing, however, was showing how the forests are replenishing our planet. Perhaps they should have green for the regions that still have at least some rainforest left (like parts of Brazil). It’s vital to preserve the little we’ve still got…
By Steve Habib Rose on 09.27.06 11:57 am
This is amazing, i am only 15, but to be able to actually see what is going on around the world, is just amazing. Adding to what steve is saying here, i think you should add a thing to it showing how many trees are cut down in each country.
By brandon hay on 05.13.08 8:01 pm
Leave a comment