Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Table of demographic, wealth, resource and impact indicators compare 1968 with 2018.
Comparison of energy used per capita in high, medium, and low income countries.
Percentage of people living experiencing water scarcity from 1910 to 2010.
Number of people living in urban areas vs rural areas starting in 1950 and projected to 2050.
Number of people living in urban areas vs rural areas starting in 1950 and projected to 2050.
Historic growth in the number of cities with over 1 million residents from 1960 to 2030.
How energy sources need to change by 2050 for Earth to stay below 2 degrees C warming.
Forest loss in Indonesia and the Brazilian Amazon as a percentage of 1970s forest remaining in 2020.
Earth graphics display human's growing global footprint from 1968 to 1993 to 2018.
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