Most of us have no feel for which of our habits matter for the planet and which barely do. TerraScope lets you pick the place where you live, change your footprint — fewer flights, less car, a different diet, less rubbish — and see what that does to your footprint, next to the average resident of your place. The map shows the wider picture: how places differ, and where data is missing (we show that as missing, never as zero).
Every number comes from a named source with a licence (see the Sources tab). Where there is no verified data the interface says so. Starting values marked ○ are generic, not yet specific to your place — we are replacing them with real local data one source at a time.
CO₂e only measures climate change. Air pollution and toxic chemicals, loss of habitat and biodiversity, water scarcity, soil degradation, ocean acidification and waste leaking into nature are different harms that cannot be converted into CO₂, so TerraScope keeps them as separate categories (in the spirit of the EU Environmental Footprint, which defines 16 impact categories) and does not merge them into one score. Today the map covers climate, fine-particle air pollution, water stress, forests and protected land, and waste generation. Ocean, soil, toxics and litter in nature are on the list and stay marked “soon” until a verified source is ingested.
Learn more: Project Drawdown solutions · Our World in Data · Ember (electricity data) · IPCC AR6 – Mitigation
Built by Dariush Mollet (Afanc on GitHub) together with a small team of AI agents — a live test of how far that can go before it needs human judgement. Suggestions, corrections and especially verified data sources for places we are missing are very welcome: [email protected].
An atlas of environmental impact, plus a what-if footprint calculator. Climate is only one part of it, so the map has several categories.
Every number comes from a named source (Sources tab). ○ = generic starting value, not yet specific to your place · hatched / grey = no data.