This website puts things into perspective a bit…
While I was perusing the internet for all things green related, I stumbled upon this site and well, to put it frankly, I felt more than a little bit shocked at the statistics.
The website is called breathing earth and it consists of a map of the world and it’s an up-todate- second by second visualisation of CO2 emissions and birth and death rates across the world. It’s both fascinating and frightening all at the same time and well if it doesn’t captivate you, hold your attention and make you think twice then there is definitely something wrong with you.
The part of the site that’s that puts it all into perspective the most though is the ‘count-up’ subtitled ‘since you started watching’ that rapidly counts how many people have been born, died and how much CO2 is being emitted globally while your on the site. While I’ve been writing this blog, almost 4,000 people have been born, almost 2,000 people have died and almost 900, 000 tonnes of CO2 have been emitted and i’ve only been on the site for no more then 12 minutes!
Other features of the site allow you to scroll over different countries to see their individual statistics. This site is truly something to behold.
