Ode to the Map
Came across this interesting graphic showing the spatial distribution of job creation and job loss over the past five years in the US. Watch as Katrina hits New Orleans, cities wax and wane, and red blossoms across the map in this latest financial downturn. It’s pretty powerful stuff, albeit—in my humble opinion— a bit alarmist. It makes me think the environmental movement would do well to create similar easily-understood graphics that show the magnitude of our environmental impacts as a way of inspiring cultural change. (Maybe something like this? A little hokey, but …)
One response so far
I’m afraid that easily-understood graphics to explain the threats to the environment will not be enough — at least in America, the mass of people have forgotten or unlearned that we are dependent on the natural world, and no longer see the a healthy environment as essential.
As Mark Slouka put it:
Wonder? What was there to wonder at ?
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“Eclogue On the rich sin of meddling” Mark Slouka
Harper’s July 2009 p47