Here’s a cool site I discovered while leafing through Outside Magazine yesterday.BreathingEarth.net is a world map which displays the real time birth/death rate and CO2 emissions around the planet.
Click on the United States, for example and see how the population of 299,102,661 is decreasing by one person every 12.8 seconds while another is born every 7.5 seconds. In addition, 1000 tons of CO2 are emitted every 5.4 seconds. In Norway, on the other hand, a person dies every 12 minutes and another is born every 9.9 minutes. It takes the Norwegians almost ten minutes to pump out 1000 tons of CO2.
The map also shows how many births and deaths have occurred since signing on to the site. Watching how fast the birthrate is overtaking the death rate is rather frightening. In the time it took me to write this post, 4460 people were born but only 1930 died.
