Green Day

It's Green Day again. Today, I'd simply like to relay a fascinating link. The Breathing Earth simulation... "This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates." In real time, you can see an aproximation of how the world changes as you look at it.

"Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the CO2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high."

Of note: While the image of a changing earth is fascinating, I disagree with some of what this website has to say. For instance, it claims polution is mostly a problem of "The West" despite the large contributions of Russia and China and that while countries like Luxemburg and Australia have huge "per capita" pollution problems, they aren't as serious because they have smaller populations. It also claims that when developing countries are high polluters, they are simply emulating the West. However, many researchers point out that these countries have adopted these practices for economic reasons and will never make an attempt to be more green so long as they can pollute the earth more cheaply than helping it. We can all hope for and work towards cheaper solutions to protecting the earth and working together as a global community to be better stewards of creation.