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- Nephersir7, on 06/30/2009, -6/+44Just in: countries with a lot of people consume more resources than the others
- EMFK, on 06/30/2009, -1/+34Interesting map. I doubt too many people will be surprised by the countries that lead in oil, electricity, and rice.
- Linake, on 06/30/2009, -0/+25Around 15% of the world's AA batteries per year.
- had3l, on 06/30/2009, -0/+24I was surprised that the percentage of total world consumption amounts to EXACTLY 100%
- wiachy, on 06/30/2009, -1/+25a cool way to show what we already know.
- jcsoc, on 06/30/2009, -0/+22and Canada is still two countries
- mkaufman, on 06/30/2009, -0/+20Very misleading. A circle showing 100% of the world usage has twice the diameter of one showing 50%. Therefore its area is four times as big as the smaller one. If you show graphs in 2D, then use a 2D measurement (area) and not an 1D measurement.
- borez, on 06/30/2009, -0/+17Even though the infographic says that China uses 40% of the worlds cotton, you can bet that the vast majority gets exported as cheap t-shirts etc. to the rest of the world.
- mriojas, on 06/30/2009, -0/+15What does the island of Lesbos consume?
- had3l, on 06/30/2009, -1/+12Should have been per capita.
If you considered Europe a country, it would probably be way up there too. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10It would be more useful if the numbers were represented as average consumption per person in those countries. Saying that the US uses 16% of the coal while India uses 8% doesn't mean much if you don't know that India's population is nearly four times larger.
The other problem with that graphic is that the size of the circles distorts the numbers. The area of a circle is πr². If the radius is twice as long, the circle is four times larger. So, that 16% takes up four times as much visual space as the 8%. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 06/30/2009, -3/+13We won so many of those categories!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! - nimbletimble, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10The UK always slips through the net on these type o things!
- ihatediggcom, on 06/30/2009, -2/+11this is pointless
- Nijak, on 06/30/2009, -5/+14still not taking european union as a whole?
- estat, on 06/30/2009, -3/+12This was my first thought as well. Having just visited Spain and Greece, they seem to have more in common than New York and Mississippi.
Edit: Obviously, they're still different countries, but when you're comparing China, U.S., etc, it makes more sense to consider the EU as a nation IMO. - Zippo, on 06/30/2009, -5/+14USA is like Windows Vista... a resource hog.
- s4g4n, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8Chicken, usa 95%....
- CressCrowbits, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8You boys better get eatin' that rice HARD if you want to stay top.
- kimbja98, on 06/30/2009, -1/+8This graphic doesn't show who actually produces these resources. The US may consume the most corn, but then if they produce the most corn, that's not a bad thing no?
- hazelnoot, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Would have been more interesting if the European Union was seen as one entity.
- dsmx, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6that's because the UK's impact on the environment is much lower than it's given credit for.
- Jsoul87, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7Did you even look at the chart? A lot of the metrics disprove that theory.
Where's India's 1.1 billion population under Oil, Coal, Gas or Corn consumption?
Why are we Americans leading in oil over China with a 4th of the population?
if you want to normalize all this into some cliche sentence that sounds logical, then put on your tinfoil hat and go at it. So many other factors come into play here, you're assuming everyone is as developed as the U.S. and therefore we should all have similar consumption habits.
Here's a hint: If everyone consumed at the rate a typical American consumes, the world would sustain that kind of demand for about a week before running out. And that's being generous. - davem2312, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7I guess what I meant was that we use oil, coal, and natural gas to make electricity a lot of the time, so in those cases, we are measuring the same consumption twice.
- Briggykins, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6That would be a lot more useful if it was per capita.
- zephc, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5I have a corn allergy just *looking* at that graph
- CressCrowbits, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6I really have to bury you Monek, your comment was just ***** rude and added nothing.
- cawfee, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5But then you have a bunch of countries upset about the loss of their respective individuality.
- DaviDTC, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5But still what? Completely different content. Who cares if it looks the same?
I too thought it was a dupe and was going to make a comment about it being different before someone came here to say it was a dupe.
http://digg.com/business_finance/A_Guide_to_the_Wo ... - Kapitaine, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4This entire graphic is flawed. It's misleading, heavily over-simplified and just plain wrong!
It doesn't tell us anything. If it wasn't in a graphic and instead a table of tabular data...you'd soon see that a child could have drawn this up. - DouglasQ, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5Silence glutton!
- digg4peace, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4They have had the bullet train for 25 years, most people here don't even have any idea of what modern transportation is like or how great it is to use, ...ever since the oil companies took down the Red Car in L.A., unless something increases oil consumption, is has generally been discouraged...
- masamunecyrus, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4An interesting thing to note is that while Japan has half the population of the US, they use less than 1/3rd the electricity and less than 1/7th the natural gas.
- ghatid, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5Well, we are 2 of the largest countries. And America (used to more) and China both export a lot of ***** to other countries.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Americans aren't eating a lot of corn. The majority of that is used to make fructose which is concentrated sugar and is put in everything we eat and drink, then we need big SUVs that burn up most of the oil to haul our fat, soggy Mickey Dees, soda drinking asses to Wal-mart to buy cheap t-shirts made in China.
Amerikans are getting dumber by the minute... - diablozx9, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3LOL,, " White and French "
- arleym, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3I wanted to see Canada's beer consumption.
- Screwy1138, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3agreed. if you could somehow represent production versus consumption over population, that would be interesting.
- hfactor, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3The US has about 3.7 times the population of Germany, but consumes 8 times the oil according to this graph...
- deathfix, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4It's a resource as indicated by the map's title. "Resource Consumption by Country"
- Zique, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3They should just measure the consumption per capita and then highlight the places where people use most resources per person. Now it's just basically a competition over who has the largest population.
- hfactor, on 06/30/2009, -2/+5Why would you? We are different countries. They also didn't take Asia as a whole because "they eat a lot of rice" or whatever.
- Monek, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Dear CressCrowbits, I just dugged you. You've got a point! I don't know where to begin with the genius I buried.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Canada is one country and its located north of the US.
Anyhow, I don't think Canada was lumped into the totals anyway. With a pop. of 32 mil we wouldn't make a huge dent in the numbers. - mavar, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3More people consuming more resources is just 1 factor. How developed a country is, cultural history etc. also matters quite a bit - at least looking from the map.
Rice, Wheat, Cotton - China and India consume the highest. Rice and Wheat (Rice more than Wheat) is the staple diet for both the countries (and the only diet for a vast majority of the people.) In India, governments have schemes of giving 2 kilograms of rice for Rs. 2/- for the poor (approximately 4.5 pounds of rice for 4 cents).
U.S. is the largest consumer of Corn (I am guessing staple diet ?), even though the number of people in the U.S. compared to China and India is not even close.
Cotton was first cultivated in the Indus valley (Indus -> India.. see ?) and has spread to India, China, the Mediterranean etc. (wikipedia)
China and India has so many more people than the U.S. that it is not even a joke. But look at electricity, oil and natural gas (perhaps these are not mutually exclusive). They consume more than both China and India (and a lot more countries) put together. I would guess that this shows the rate of development and accessibility issues that China and India has. - Nikobert, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3I love mint.com
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2I like this. I might steal it and use it later.
- Cyberdactyl, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Two things.
First, why have leaders going to the countries. Is it because most don't know where each country is located?
Second, what's the deal with "electricity" consumption? Isn't electricity too integrated with oil, coal, corn and natural gas to be its own category?
This info-map/graph appears to be too statistically silly to me. - RagManX, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2I laughed, but thought it worth noting it's "uighers" and not "weegers."
- Slothy88, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2lol, poor Australia
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