SamISmyth
Draining Earth's Reserves
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Made for an Information is Beautiful Challenge, they provided the raw data, sources they used are listed below smoke stack. Concept and execution is mine. I also researched the uses and decided to visualize carbon emissions (black smog).
Key is on the left. Height dimension is years remaining until we are out of *known reserves currently economic to extract*, without recycling (many elements not recycled at present), assuming production growth continues to rise at current rate (lets hope not.)
Top width based on total known reserves, using log scaling. Bottom width based on amount used last year (also log scaled).
Three main uses for each element shown in factory line boxes. Smoke outline is the usual carbon emissions graph flipped onto a vertical axis (so that date is the vertical axis.) Dates only apply to the carbon emissions (note the drop after the Great Depression circa 1929.)
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Draining Earth's Reserves
Click for full view. Go here for bigger image: samismyth.deviantart.com/#/d4mswda
Made for an Information is Beautiful Challenge, they provided the raw data, sources they used are listed below smoke stack. Concept and execution is mine. I also researched the uses and decided to visualize carbon emissions (black smog).
Key is on the left. Height dimension is years remaining until we are out of *known reserves currently economic to extract*, without recycling (many elements not recycled at present), assuming production growth continues to rise at current rate (lets hope not.)
Top width based on total known reserves, using log scaling. Bottom width based on amount used last year (also log scaled).
Three main uses for each element shown in factory line boxes. Smoke outline is the usual carbon emissions graph flipped onto a vertical axis (so that date is the vertical axis.) Dates only apply to the carbon emissions (note the drop after the Great Depression circa 1929.)
Request permission from me before any reproduction.