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It's pretty revealing that almost everyone in the world would far prefer to live in the red countries.
Seriously? Did you not see Canada, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia. For me it was relatively balanced and mainly the US really throws it off. There are also some red countries that I would seriously not want to live in.
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
Even a worst case scenario where the Earth is burnt, dead and poisonous is much better suited for humans than Mars is.
If humans need to migrate, the oceans is a better first step. It's about a billion times cheaper and more hospitable.
Very nicely made tool, unfortunately they forgot that red/green colorblindness is very common, so I can't really see anything in their graphs. Shouldn't be hard to add a little menu that allows you to choose the color themes, so color blind people can select one where they actually see a difference between the regions.
It's pretty revealing that almost everyone in the world would far prefer to live in the red countries.
Everyone would probably also prefer to spend the weekend with their high-rolling free-spending uncle, who will be bankrupt in a year but will guarantee you a great time in Las Vegas, than with their budget-conscious boring aunt who will reliably save money away for all the kids' college educations.
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars as a place where we could expand in foreseeable future. Maybe someone knowledgeable could chime in?
I propose saving this planet, and not messing up another one.
Very nicely made tool, unfortunately they forgot that red/green colorblindness is very common, so I can't really see anything in their graphs. Shouldn't be hard to add a little menu that allows you to choose the color themes, so color blind people can select one where they actually see a difference between the regions.
Have you tried the EnChroma color-blindness glasses? It would be an easier solution than designing data viz to avoid using color blindess color-combos or requiring dynamic options, IMO.
Very nicely made tool, unfortunately they forgot that red/green colorblindness is very common, so I can't really see anything in their graphs. Shouldn't be hard to add a little menu that allows you to choose the color themes, so color blind people can select one where they actually see a difference between the regions.
Have you tried the EnChroma color-blindness glasses? It would be an easier solution than designing data viz to avoid using color blindess color-combos or requiring dynamic options, IMO.
The easiest way I found for data viz to accommodate color blindness is to make sure everything is separated in intensity by a fair amount and have a tool-tip on the color legend indicating which color it is so if the accompanying text is referring to parts by color it can be figured out which color on the graph is being referred to.
"Ideal" growth of an economy is 3%. Growth takes resources(fossil fuels, ore, etc). Compound growth takes more and more resources over the whole planet. Free market fundamentalism means we're not investing so heavily into alternative sources but burning what we've got. Compound that 3% and it's just a metter when we'll be fucked unless things change a lot.
> Growth takes resources(fossil fuels, ore, etc). This is simply wrong. We produce vastly more GDP per unit of energy than we did a century ago, and will do the same a century from now. The size of an economy is a measure of what people will pay for a good. It's not a measure of how big a pile of steel you can make. The most expensive goods nowadays, services and computing, do not take vast piles of resources. In fac…
Here is a graph is US energy intensity:
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191
The US uses less than half the amount of energy per unit of GDP than it did in 1950.
We need to live in harmony with Nature. This kind of awareness (hard metrics) has to be fed back into our decision making to do it. I believe we can support current population density with ecological enrichment through "applied ecology", e.g. Permaculture, etc. but only if we are aware of the need and priority. --- For example see David Blume's concept for small-scale organic alcohol fuel production integrated with P…