Worldmapper: Reinventing the map from a ecological perspective
Carbon Emissions
They say that some people are auditory learners and others are hands-on. Well, this tool is perfect for people who absorb information best when they see it expressed visually -- like me. It's called Worldmapper and it's an online catalog of maps that re-imagines the globe based on factors like population, resources, pollution, and even municipal garbage collection.If you're the kind of person who gets excited over cartography, or sometimes spends over an hour looking at things on Google Earth, you're probably going to want to spend a couple of minutes searching for which countries have the greatest water supply or largest recycling programs. These maps explore other factors as well, like violence, education, wealth, and nuclear weapons stockpiles.
You might be surprised by how many of these maps don't match up with your expectations. The greenhouse emissions map shows the Europe almost tied with US for the title of greatest emitter. Of course, the map only includes data current to the year 2000, which is probably woefully inaccurate now.
We also know that as of 2008, China would be slightly larger than the US on the CO2 map. Brazil and Australia would both be substantially larger as well.
[via Inhabitat]
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