[Vnbiz] ReVised: Watch the World Breathe -- as we smoke it, some might say

[AD Marshall]

Significantly revised (incl. previous corrections), definitely toned down,
expanded with 10,000-year world population graph and figures from 1750-2150
from Wikipedia -- maybe even improved.  Still scary.  Vietnam's situation
still highlighted against world's, at end.  - AD
 2007-08-21  Watch the World Breathe -- as we smoke it, some might
say<http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/watch-world-breathe-as-we-smoke-it-some_21.html>
Click
image to view full-size screenshot.
But, note, it's just a still of a video page


<http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqKrGEx7xJY/RsolNxsxhfI/AAAAAAAAAOc/zb51HOO6F0Q/s1600-h/breathingearth_scrn02.png>David
Bleja (aka StillWater), a student of Multimedia Design at Monash University,
Australia, has created a Flash video presentation displaying the ongoing
evolution via an interactive, multimedia map of the world estimating of each
nation's worldwide carbon dioxide emission levels, birthrates and death
rates <http://www.breathingearth.net/> using on base data from the USA's CIA
and United Nations, all in purported "real-time", as it happens.

Going to BreathingEarth.Net <http://www.breathingearth.net/> and clicking to
enter loads up an interactive, multimedia map and starts a counter recording
global births, deaths and carbon dioxide emissions. Clicking on a country
lists its base data as population and the numbers of minutes in which a
person dies another is born and a kilotonne of carbon dioxide is emitted in
that nation. (Unfortunately, because of StillWater's coding, the map only
works in Internet Explorer and browsers that spoof IE, not Firefox.)

In about a minute thirty-four of one run, Stillwater's map guessed 120 folks
bit the big one worldwide while 325 new lives lined up for the Show by PT
Barnum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%2527s_a_sucker_born_every_minute>,
and another 49,000 tonnes of CO2 were spewed as support and exhaust of over
6.5 billion homo sapiens worldwide (see screenshot above).

The UN's World Population Prospects <http://esa.un.org/unpp/> system
forecasts over 9.1 billion people worldwide by 2050, adding some 2.5 billion
people over 45 years. The entire cumulative world population built up to
1950 over 10,000 years was just over 2.5 billion.

As of the time of this post, Wikipedia describes World Population trends
like this (click to enlarge):

<http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqKrGEx7xJY/Rspf2hsxhrI/AAAAAAAAAP8/NUjLv8UPLDc/s1600-h/550px-Population_curve.svg.png>And
this (in millions):

Region [image: ↓] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1750 [image:
↓] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1800 [image:
↓]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1850
[image: ↓] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1900
[image: ↓]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1950
[image: ↓] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 1999
[image: ↓]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 2050
[image: ↓] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#> 2150
[image: ↓]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#>
World 791 978 1,262 1,650 2,521 5,978 8,909 9,746 [Click arrows to view
Wikipedia page]

Vietnam's contribution to populating and polluting the Place, according to
BreathingEarth (screenshot above) is summarized as over 84 million folks
pumping out a measly 1000 tonnes of CO2 every 7.9 minutes, compared to the
leaders, the G7 <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3AG7> and
BRIC<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3ABRIC>blocks, but,
while adding to a new homo sapiens every 22 seconds for each
one lost at one per minute -- ie, net growth of some 17 Viet homo sapiens
every 10 minutes, almost 908,000 over the 525,600 minutes this year, edging
a million per annum.

StillWater's recent
works<http://stillwater-microcosm.net/pages/recentwork.html>,
including BreathingEarth <http://www.breathingearth.net/>, are listed at the
StillWater Microcosm <http://stillwater-microcosm.net/> site.

Posted by Mặc AD Marshall  at
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