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Footspotting: Global Carbon Footprint Infographic
As Sustainability month draws to a close, we've dug up a gem from the Coroflot archives: Stanford Kay's excellent infographic of global carbon emissions.
Kay's design succeeds in representing a potentially overwhelming set of data on several levels: some 200+ different countries are represented by bubbles, color-coded by continent, where the size of each is proportional to its carbon emissions.
Moreover, the arrangement of the bubbles completes the metaphor, adding a further dimension of scale to the graphic: it is difficult, if not impossible, to see the big picture when one is perusing the names of the individual countries. Thus, Kay's infographic also reminds us not to miss the forest for the trees.
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US blob should be much bigger - is it logarithmic scale? :-). Spherical representation may be used for logarithmic scale.
Green color is not suitable for America and Europe - it must be alarming and Red. Green should be rather used for African countries.
Does anyone know what the orange circle between China, Japan and Kazakhstan is?
If you wanna create awareness and responsibility, the cause has to percolate to the individual level to create impact. Now what we have is a highly articulated super-sexy data which is misleading. Anyways love the info-graphics. :)
If you want governments to take a role in addressing emissions, then it is sensible to make the size of the government's box in proportion to the size of the emissions under that government's jurisdiction.
The US circle would be five times as big as the Chinese circle.
US 20 tons Co2 per person per year, Germans 10 tons, several (most western) economies 9,8,7,6... - Chinese 4 tons Co2 per year.