Earth Day 1970–2022: What's Changed? #datavisualization

The first Earth Day was in 1970. What’s changed since? Our population has doubled. We’re emitting 2.6 times more CO2. Sea levels have risen 12 centimeters. But the world has also changed for the better. See how our actions since 1970 have added up.

#EarthDay #ClimateChange #Environment

VIDEO CREDITS

Executive Producer
AMNH/V. Trakinski

Writer/Producer
AMNH/L. Moustakerski

Animator
AMNH/S. Krasinski

Sound Design
AMNH/J. Morfoot

Scientific Advisors
AMNH/A. Porzecanski
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation

DATA SOURCES

Climate Action Tracker
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
CSIRO
Endangered Species International
EPA, America’s Children and the Environment, 2015
EPA, Our Nation’s Air: Trends Through 2015
IEA
IPCC, Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report, 5th Assessment
IUCN Red List 2022
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Our World in Data
UN Environment Programme, Ozone Secretariat
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
UN, World Population Prospects 2019

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[ray]

Earth 🌍 very special and rare. We must protect our Planet 🌍. 🥰

[arisusilawati]

Dear. Sir/Madam. We ask for permission to use this video for Bioethics teaching materials. Is that okay?

[TheStaceyNY]

Would have loved to see reduction in animal ag as a part of the solution....

[simonas]

Nice video, but it needs few critics: first of all, cars may be less pollutant now...but the number of cars and airplanes used since 1979 till today has dramatically increase, so I do not see any improvement in emissions from transportation. Then, we are currently seeing Paris agreement is not taking place...in my country (Italy) good soils are covered of solar panels and windmill, canceling the carbon sequestration made by vegetation, and destroying landscapes. I am not optimist at all, and I think we all should be aware of these contradictions besides nice words and commitments.

[kjmav]

Beautifully done graphics. Hope we can turn the ship around . . .

[spidrawebster]

Nice data visualization, but without audio description the video is not accessible to blind/low vision folks.

[gimo]

Don't be worried because I did investigate where it should and I realized that in this decade, the issue of the environment is above all the elections in the entire world and that the world itself is committed to fighting it with more force.
(Since at the beginning of this decade the effort of people who care about the environment has intensified enormously and is giving positive and formidable results)

Examples:
1. The governments of 196 major countries are doing too much about it and are delivering tremendous and very positive results. (one of them is China turning deserts into forests)

2. More companies are adapting to renewable energies that do not pollute, such as electricity, solar, hydraulic, windmills and nuclear. (and have also promised to do something about it)

3. The ozone layer is recovering and is expected to close completely soon.

4. More people are protesting and doing something about it and they are having positive results, plus more people are joining them every day.

And how are there more positive news! 🌱😍🌎

[abhijeetyadav]

Is this for children? Such naive optimism has been the root of problem for long enough already. Let's please have the courage to call a spade, a spade, a catastrophe as that; for until we do so our menial action plans are not going to get us anywhere, might even close the window for good.

[engima]

So today on earth day I'm going to start eating plant food. 😂

[katesevvv]

I think is bad because some animal are getting extint.

[GuilhermeFarias-vr]

Illuminations são ajudantes da humanidade egípcia

[katesevvv]

I think is bad because the ice is melting and many species are getting extint.

[AKrn]

If we decide, why are we deciding on business as usual? That's the wrong direction.
Nature Bats Last.

[thecuteplayer]

i dont know why our teacher told us to reseath this video for a presentation of class 9( X_X)

[GuilhermeFarias-vr]

Illuminations tumores actions quê significa naturaly famyli

[GuilhermeFarias-vr]

Atlanta minha antiga natal Souza leão

[CJ-vqtg]

the earth is 4 billion years old, humans have only been around for 300, 000 years, we've only been in heavy industry for around 200 years, yet we are ignorant enough to think we are a threat to this planet??? HA, planet isnt going anywhere folks, we are

[TunaFreeDolphinMeat]

Too many shallow, self-serving and ignorant people

[BobFitzrerald]

I think I'll celebrate this earth day by going on a hunting trip and getting an oil change.