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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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Comments
Love the graphic. the link to the full-size is broken though.
Full-size image should work now.
Cool graphic, but Sierra Leone is in West Africa, not South America.
Per capita would be fair.
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.
Morris, why is per capita 'fair' ? Do you mean that doubling the world's population to reduce per capita greenhouse emissions would solve the problems ? Can I claim I've halved my household emissions by having a couple of kids ?
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.
Gary, I agree to you to an extend. But, I bet Morris has a valid point. Its like comparing the emissions of one-person-driven ferrari to 4 economy cars packed with people.
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. :)
I do agree with Morris too. From my point of view, comparisons between countries as big as some continents with countries as small as Luxembourg are not the best way to represent the reality. (but it is only a remark of improvment, I like the concept despite this !).
It seems there's an unnamed blob on the diagram.
Does anyone know what the orange circle between China, Japan and Kazakhstan is?
Nice representation and fitting effort.
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.
Hi there ... love the info-graphic. Would you mind if I corrected the illustration by turning Sierra Leone purple as it is on the west coast of Africa?