← on nowLGR-149 · v0.1.0 · model · model someone born in 1955: the numbers
someone born in 1955 · an average life so far, at the world average · if they eat meat
49 700 → 2.3 someone born in 1955 is about 71. if they eat meat, roughly like the world average, they have consumed a piece of at least 49 700 different living things, and about 1.8 tonnes of meat and 0.5 tonnes of fish have passed through them.
method as 'your share', for a fixed birth year: world-average per-capita slaughter, catch and food supply integrated from that year to now.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=someone%20born%20in%201955" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · someone born in 1955"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- as 'your share', for a fixed birth year: world-average per-capita slaughter, catch and food supply integrated from that year to now.
- range
- meals ±30%; mass ±20%; sea count on a 1–2.2 trillion/yr basis
- confidence
- model
- weakness
- a world-average person of that age; nobody is average. the point is the size, not the decimals.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-149 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0