Earth Day 1970 – 2017: What’s Changed? #datavisualization

The first Earth Day was in 1970. What’s changed since? Our population has doubled. We’re emitting 2.4 times more CO2. Sea levels have risen 4 inches. But the world has also changed for the better. See how our actions since 1970 have added up.

#Earthday #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

CSIRO
Endangered Species International
EPA, America’s Children and the Environment, 2015
EPA, Our Nation’s Air: Trends Through 2015
Global Carbon Atlas
IPCC, Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report, 5th Assessment
IUCN Red List
NASA
NOAA
UN Environment Programme, Ozone Secretariat
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
UN, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision
US Fish & Wildlife Service
van Dijk, A., et al., “Skin cancer risks avoided by the Montreal Protocol,” Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2012
WWF, Living Planet Report 2016

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[Adrian]

I'm surprised this video hasn't blown up yet

[Hostilenemy]

"New Cars, trucks and buses are 99% cleaner"




Apart from Volkswagen

[vfleming]

I would love to feature this clip on a public access show that I produce next month. Whom would I contact for permission?

[manojbamnia]

Happy World Earth day 2017:
Theme"Environmental & climate Literacy".
Let's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

[Olysker]

How can something like CFC's be so easy to ban, and yet doing the same to plastics isn't even considered?

[rednet]

The thing is since the 1970 to today we have more Bankers, Big companies and Politics this are the first things to get off the world. Then you can start to celebrate a kind of Earth Day.
The Earth don't need us. Earth day is a mockery in our days . Same old game, some new hippies become famous and that is all about. Selfish and Greediness... I prefer to call this day The HUMAN DAY, since we hare all here ship happens. I'm sure if they will create a hell of a Museum out of this. About this video It's all BS but huge BS

[walthain]

"We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now, ” (Sir David Attenborough, January 21, 2013).

[hightechredneck]

2:35 can someone explain to me how lead from gasoline is getting into childrens blood???

[stuartpickles]

If a coconut has hair and milk then why isn't it considered a mammal?

[walthain]

The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world. "It is also a great 'failure', that population growth has not been taken into account in the debate on climate change" (Renate Bähr, Geschäftsführerin der Deutschen Stiftung Weltbevölkerung, WELT ONLINE, November 2009).

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Theia, sometimes rendered Thea ... means simply "goddess" ...
Hesiod's Theogony gives her an equally primal origin, said to be the
eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky) ... (Wikipedia)

[RPD]

Earth is the only home we have. We better take care of it.

[adamromero]

i like the second half of the video :)

[dennisrodriguez]

basiclly humans got to confortable in earth and we destroyed it

[KarenFullerxklem]

The US alone cannot make a difference. The 3rd world countries are going through industrial revolutions and are being given a pass. Education is needed well beyond our borders.

On a lighter note, I was excited for the first Earth Day because I got to wear pants to school, not a skirt. :)

[AlainaLindsay]

this video is so valuable and important!
We can all make a difference
I recently uploaded a tribute to Earth Day this year and would love if you could check it out and let me know your thoughts on it!
- Alaina

[vannaanimals]

More destruction, now than ever. until we have nothing else here.

[แป้นไม้นามปากกา]

ไม่ ได้ จักรวาล ไป ไกล กว่า การศึกษา แล้ว ไม่ ผ่าน

[barasihombing]

I dont want to eat fish anymore even its healthy :( make sea clean again no oils leaked everywhere poor fish im not shark hater anymore

[octoflex]

love how this says absolutely NOTHING about the literal islands of trash floating in the ocean or space debris and dead satellites