Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, the world’s sixth largest privately held software company. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, Esri is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in geographic information systems, or GIS, pioneering innovative solutions for working with spatial data.
The first Earth Day , on April 22, 1970, in the United States, is widely regarded as the largest single-day demonstration in human history. Twenty million Americans participated in marches, teach-ins, clean-ups, and rallies from one end of the country to the other.
Two months before Earth Day, President Nixon had acknowledged that Lake Erie was so polluted it was effectively “dead” in ecological terms. One of the most important realizations is this: We can help shape the future. Our own future — the future for humanity – but also the future for everything on Earth.The accumulated choices of humanity over the last 200 years have created what’s being called the Anthropocene — an era of dominant human influence in the evolution of Earth’s ecosystem.
We are living recklessly, beyond our means in environmental terms, and beyond the planet’s ability to sustain us, at least the way we are living now.We need to protect our wild lands because they protect us.We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Create a circular economy that treats waste as a resource. Make sustainable agriculture the standard.
Today’s digital maps — infused with real-time data from sensors, satellites, and drones — are tools for both storytelling and solution-building. Enriched with artificial intelligence, today’s maps are analytical engines. They reveal patterns of emissions, of development, of communities in danger from sea level rise or wildfires or drought.inevitably involves conflict and compromise but today’s maps bring collective understanding. They become a shared space.
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