VIDEO: Raining elephants? The sky is falling!
A contest was recently held by The Alliance for Climate Protection and Current TV to create "eco-spots" that encourage people to take action to help solve the climate crises. Dave Schlafman was the grand prize winner with this somewhat humorous entry. It was featured in Al Gore's TED conference slide show but since so many of us suffer from short attention spans we thought we'd give it it's own special place here on AutoblogGreen just in case you missed it.
Although the video, titled "Sky is Falling," doesn't offer up any specific solutions, it certainly does a good job of helping us get our heads around the amounts of CO2 we emit into the air by burning carbon-based fuels. Hit the jump to enjoy the video and watch out for those elephants!
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EVan 12:41PM (4/17/2008)
The average human respiratory system generates roughly 450 liters (about 900 grams or .0009 tonnes) of CO2 per day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2#Human_physiology
That's .0009 tonnes x 365 = 0.3285 tonnes per year.
There are 6.6 billion people on earth, roughly. Therefore the total CO2 emitted by people on the earth breathing alone is
.3285 x 6.6x10^9 = 2.168 billion tonnes
If the world would just hold it's breath for 3 years we could make up for all of the CO2 emmitted in the US in a year.
Problem solved. :)
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