Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:14 pm

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Air traffic routes are shown between North America and Europe. Felix
Pharand-Deschenes has created global snapshots depicting how power lines,
roads and even air traffic corridors have come to dominate the surface of
Earth. His visualisations based on real data show air traffic routes, the
underwater cables that carry the internet, road and rail networks and
electricity transmission lines all superimposed over cities at night.

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:24 pm

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"There is a growing number of global datasets showing the extent of our
ecological footprint," he said. "These are numbers and tables but
I decided to use these datasets and to present them in a more realistic way.
I started to gather data from numerous sources and to explore ways of
assembling them."

Road and rail networks in South America superimposed over satellite images
of cities illuminated at night

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:25 pm

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During his research Felix found that over three per cent of the world's land
surface has now been covered in tarmac. This amounts to 1.7 million square
miles and is a greater land area than the whole of India.

Human technology presence over Australasia at night

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:26 pm

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Despite the threat to nature that this rise of humanity represents, Felix is
positive about the legacy of our species. "Today's global civilisation
is the work of billions of people throughout history," he said. "It
has been established through much effort, successes and sufferings - as well
as wars, inventions, exchanges, crisis and socio-technological changes. The
world at the start of the 21st Century is also the result of what we call
the Great Acceleration - the most rapid transformation of the human
relationship with the natural world in history. Many human activities
reached take-off points sometime in the mid-20th Century and sharply
accelerated towards the end of the century."

Air traffic routes over sea around North and South America

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:27 pm

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The UN Revision of World Populations study estimated that by 2050 another 2.3
billion could be added to the world population - mainly from the cities of
Asia. This increase is equal to the entire population of the world in 1950.
By the end of the 21st Century the world population could more than double
to 15.8 billion people.

Air traffic routes over Eurasia

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:27 pm

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Road and rail networks and cities illuminated at night in Europe, along with transmission lines and underwater cables

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:28 pm

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Human technology presence over North America

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Major road and rail networks in Africa, along with transmission line and underwater cable data

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Major road and rail networks in Australasia, along with transmission line and underwater cable data

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:29 pm

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Felix is the founder and director of Globaia, an organisation that seeks to
enhance awareness of the impact and role of the human race on our world. He
has spent 13 years researching and presenting his theories to students,
fellow academics and the general public. "During this time I have been
designing and presenting conferences on the global issues of our time,"
said Felix. "I believe a picture is worth a thousand words, so I slowly
started to improve my design skills to be able to show what I was explaining."

Human technology presence over Africa at night

by **ஜனனி** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:30 pm

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"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. All the way to submarine cables, pipelines, shipping lanes and air
traffic. The show the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global
sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is."

Human technology presence over Asia at night

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