I just found a really neat and ultra informative thing on a friend’s Myspace profile. It’s a flash application that show some key statistics about the earth, disease and other incidents in a live fashion by calculating their occurences based on varying sources of data. It really should open people’s eyes to how real these troubling issues are and that they are always happening.
Things it calculates include:
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- World Population
- Population Growth
- Incidence of Malnutrition
- Incidence of HIV infection
- Global Temperatures
- CO2 Emissions
- Species Extinct
- Forests Lost
- Forest Replanted
- Desertification
- Oil Pumped
- Ocean Oil Spills
- Oil Remaining in Reserves
- Oil Depletion Timer
- Nuclear Waste
- U.S. Garbage Production
- US Recycling
So without further ado, here is the clock:
