Nation-States of Climate Change Redux
Posted by
Eric de Place
07/12/2007 11:50 AM
An international perspective on US emissions.
(*Update: Newer and better versions of these maps are here and here.)
Because I love maps so much that I just can't stop making them.
This version is a bit a more conceptual than the previous map. But even though it's a bit weirder, but I actually like it more because it really drives home the outsize significance of US climate policy.
Each state, or cluster of states, is labelled with a country or continent that has equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.
The 291 million in Americans (in 2004) is the greenhouse gas equivalent of the more than 3 billion residents of other countries listed on the map.
The detailed population comparison is below the jump...
