Earth of Stakes

Globe

Base geography: Natural Earth Admin 0 at 1:50m. Provincial detail: geoBoundaries ADM1.

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Global view

The whole Earth.

Click a country to order a broader suffering set with current national data: child health, infectious disease, food insecurity, poverty, pollution, water, clean cooking, violence, conflict, animal agriculture, wild terrestrial arthropods, and a direct human-caused insect estimate.

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Issue sources Human: WDI. Animals: OWID + WDI + RP + WAI insect estimates.

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Choose Globe

The suffering globe mixes broader human burden indicators with farmed-animal counts, wild-animal estimates, and a direct human-caused insect estimate.

Order Causes By

For humans, this mixes recurring EA priorities with broader cross-country burden indicators.

Human suffering

Farmed and wild animal suffering

Human-country rankings combine recurring EA priorities with broader World Bank burden indicators. Animal cards use country slaughter, aquaculture, land-area wild estimates, and a Wild Animal Initiative direct insect benchmark plus Rethink Priorities sentience and welfare-range distributions as burden proxies rather than full moral-weight outputs.

Factory-Farming Pain

How bad would this feel?

These visualizations use Welfare Footprint Institute estimates of time spent in different pain categories. They do not claim a perfect human-animal conversion. Instead, they use the Institute’s own human-facing pain definitions as anchors.

Human anchors

If a human felt pain at this intensity

Long pain loads

Hours or days of pain added by a system

Different rows cover different time windows. Each label states whether the estimate is for one bird’s life, one hen’s laying period, or one breeder’s life.

Acute agony at slaughter

Seconds before loss of consciousness

These rows compare common broiler stunning systems from the moment of placement in the system until loss of consciousness.

What to keep in mind

Why the numbers matter

The Welfare Footprint method measures cumulative negative affective states in time units. It is useful for comparing harms, but it is not a claim that one hour of chicken pain is morally identical to one hour of human pain.

Moral Weight Notes

How to read the animal numbers

These country cards are informed by the Moral Weight Project, but they are not full moral-weight or DALY-equivalent calculations. They are country-level suffering-pressure proxies built to be usable on a static site.

The most important practical update from these sources is restraint: do not treat neuron counts as the whole story, do not multiply octopuses by nine minds, and do not dismiss animal-heavy conclusions merely because they feel uncomfortable.

Natural Earth

Country geometry

The globe uses official Natural Earth Admin 0 countries data at 1:50m scale for accurate country outlines.

geoBoundaries

Provincial detail

Clicking a country loads ADM1 boundaries from geoBoundaries so states and provinces reflect real administrative shapes instead of rough regions.

Country burden data

Broader suffering model

Human issues combine recurring EA priorities with broader World Bank country indicators. Animal and insect issues use Our World in Data country proxies, World Bank land and agricultural-land data, and a Wild Animal Initiative insect benchmark instead of invented regional prose, while Bentham’s Bulldog is used to frame the current animal per-being numbers as conservative.

Welfare Footprint

Animal pain metrics

The factory-farming visualizations use Welfare Footprint Institute estimates for laying hens, broilers, and broiler slaughter, along with its pain-intensity definitions.