Favourite Photos
Icon: LJ/sixthmile
Credits
Layout: tuesdaynight
Inspiration: DayBefore!Misery
Best viewed: Mozilla Firefox.
Resolution: 1280X800.
2 seconds.
Bitched on: Monday, April 21, 2008
Time: 4/21/2008 09:21:00 PM
Time: 4/21/2008 09:21:00 PM
Let's imagine that the entire duration of planet Earth's existence is crammed into one year.In other words, 4.54 billion years 'equates' to a year.
12,602,240 years would be reduced to a day.
525,740 years would tick in an hour.
8,752 years would be gone in just one minute.
And 146 years would flash in a second.
So let's say the first of January is when the Earth is born and our present time is New Years' eve.
So for the first couple of months, there would be no signs of life. But only in March would one-celled microbial life exist. And they would be the only lifeforms to exist for roughly six more months (i.e. 2 billion years).
More complex lifeforms would only appear in August and September.
And the larger multi-cellular organisms would make an appearance only in November.
Dinosaurs would make a brief appearance on the 13th of December (only to be extinct 13 days later). The first mammals appear on the 15th of December.
The genus Homo (our very first ancestors) appear on the 31st of December at 19:15.
The Homo sapiens, modern Man i.e. us, would only appear 11 minutes before midnight.
The first civilisation would begin one minute before midnight.
One average human lifetime is less than half a second.
That is how short our lives are. As fast as lightning.
And in that one minute when humans roam the Earth, the last two seconds are the industrial era.
"During that era, humans have used up and scattered a large proportion of the resources in the earth's crust, altered and exploited ecosystems to serve strictly human needs, held all other species at their mercy, and driven many species to extinction."(adapted from Milbrath, 1989, Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out)
Think about it, all it takes is 2 seconds for us to start destroying the Earth.
2 mere seconds.
Happy Earth Day everybody.
And treat the Earth well.
"It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children." -Kenyan proverb
Labels: Earth, natural disasters
0 comments
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home