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See the patterns, pressures, and turning points shaping life on Earth.
Enter your birth year. See your footprint in seconds.
Right now, eight billion lives are unfolding at once.
Forests fall. Cities rise. The numbers never pause.
This is Earth, second by second.
While you scrolled this far,
tonnes of CO₂ were released into the atmosphere
Since you started reading,
babies took their first breath
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Since you arrived,
tonnes of food were thrown away
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The most powerful signals of humanity and the planet
The rhythm of humanity — who arrives, who departs.
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What we take from the Earth, and what we put back.
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The cost of how we live.
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Where the world spends its wealth.
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The digital pulse of civilization.
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Estimated from published daily totals divided down to the second — not measured Sources
What we actually measure9 readings from NASA and NOAA, each with the date it was observed.The interconnected forces that define life on Earth.
For thousands of years humanity slowly uncovered how the Earth works.
Astronomers measured its size.
Scientists discovered the forces shaping climate.
Explorers mapped the oceans and continents.
Those discoveries built the knowledge that allows us to understand the planet today.
The UN dates humanity's first billion to 1804. The second took another 123 years.
20 million Americans rally, launching the modern environmental movement.
First binding international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The UN marks 15 November as the day the world passes 8 billion. Growth is slowing, but the total keeps climbing.
Every life leaves a measurable mark. Enter your birth year to see yours.
These figures do not share one basis. Most are United States averages; carbon and stool output are high-income-country averages; the energy figure is a world average. They describe typical consumption at those levels, not yours.
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Every second, systems are moving, shifting, accelerating.
Most of it happens unseen.
the planet kept moving.
Every second counts.