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

[Dieu Nguyen]

Dear AD,

Thanks for the informative website. Just a small note: I use Firefox and the
map still displays fine. Maybe the webmaster has installed updates.

Good day.

Dieu Nguyen

On 8/20/07, AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> 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 2.5billion 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 06:29<http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/watch-world-breathe-as-we-smoke-it-some_21.html>
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