I like this one: it shows the CO2-emissions from producing a half a pound of the vegetables on the left-hand side with the driving distance (perhaps along Laszlo's road maps) necessary to produced the equivalent emissions. So, producing half a pound of beef is dramatically more polluting than producing half a pound of potatoes (9.81 miles vs 0.17 miles).
This one is a meaty visualization that gives a new perspective on the term "red states". It projects US beef consumption to 2020 and 2030 compared with the world average.
This one is a visualization fail. It requires good working memory about the shapes of the world's countries...
Anyway, i'm going out for a burger. Anyone want fries with that?
Hey Cathy,
ReplyDeletenice catch ! The last one I think is a fail on multiple levels. The caption claims that the average american consumes 100 times the amount of beef that an average moldovan does. While moldova is a rather poor country, the eating habits are roughly similar to that in Romania, so I guess people eat as much meat/beef as anyone else. However most get it from villages or from own household so they are outside of official statistics. The numbers cited probably contain only the bigmacs sold in the capital :)
This map-distortion thing can be cool however:
here is one where the country area shows population:
http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/2.png