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Randy Cassingham's Bonzer Web Sites of the Week: Recognizing Interesting Sites that are Beyond the Microsoft/AOL-Time Warner/Media Megalith

Breathing Earth

An interactive world map: mouse over any country to see a real-time estimate of its birth and death rates and CO2 emissions. It also keeps track of how many people have been born and died worldwide just while you've been browsing the site, and offers a ticking worldwide population clock. Sources are fully documented, and if you scroll down you'll find a few other links of possible interest. (CK)

From This is True for 22 March 2009

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