Check Out How ‘Human-Influenced Our Planet Now Is’
- Posted on October 20, 2011 at 6:30pm by
Liz Klimas
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Using a PC and data collected during a 13 year timeframe, Canadian anthropologist Felix Pharand created a pictorial documentary of the spread of different technologies over the world, showcasing how we‘ve ’domesticated’ Earth.
Africa's road, rail and data transmission lines. Look closely and you can see data cables running under the sea. (Image: Felix Pharand via Daily Mail)
The Daily Mail reports:
Earlier this week, the United Nations Populations Fund revealed that by October 31st, there will be an extra billion people on the Earth compared to 1999.
According to the UN it has been estimated of all the humans ever born, over 6 percent, are walking the Earth today.
‘These pictures show several sides of global human activities,’ said 34-year-old Felix, from Montreal, Canada. ‘We see everything from paved and unpaved roads, light pollution, railways, electricity transmission lines.’
‘It shows the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is.’
Air traffic between America and Europe. (Image: Felix Pharand via Daily Mail)
As of right now, 3 percent of the earth — about the size of India — is covered in asphalt Pharand said to the Daily Mail. But he’s not despondent about the state of technological growth and domestication by humans. The Daily Mail reports him as saying “‘Many human activities reached take-off points sometime in the mid-20th Century and sharply accelerated towards the end of the century. These shots are a tool to raise awareness – I think we have a duty to remain optimistic in our hearts.”
Air traffic over Eurasia (Image: Felix Pharand via Daily Mail)
Pharand, the director of Globaia, an environmental group, calls the 20th century the Great Acceleration.
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sdarbro
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:23amI can see my house from here!
Oh no I left the window open!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 11:42amDid any data get in?
Report Post »lucktsm
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:06amEvil humans… the green freaks will latch on to this as the human infestation.
Report Post »FoundingPrinciples
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:53pmHumans are just a virus in the minds of many leftists after all.
Report Post »SerikFox
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:19amPretty pictures. I wish we had some more development in some places though.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:49pmI am surprised to see to see so many road, rail and data transmission lines running through the middle of the Sahara desert.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:44amSuperb research……..how about “plotting, graphing and archiving” all the promises made by politicians but never delivered.
How about doing the same with the amount of e-mail, tweet and facebook advice that has been delivered by lobbyist or special interest groups.
One more…….identify, guage, graph and archive all subversive correspondance between anyone in Washington DC.
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