I'm having a little difficulty figuring out "Visual Capitalist" mission. Almost looks like they are promoting exploitation of resources and (gasp) capitalism.

I read that a few moths ago and was astonished. Checked it out. Yeah, we do.

Per Worldometer, the US uses 20.3% of 97 million barrels of petroleum per day.
We've been around that same fraction for around 15 years.

Merry Christmas 🎄 Prof

Cooked surf & turf today. Ribeye and scallops. Safron potato puree & carrots with a bourbon/caramel sauce.
I was busy today!

within ten miles of a coast (in duscussing glacier melt, sea rise, and possible megatsunamis).

Nearly 2.4 billion people (about 40 per cent of the world’s population) live within 100 km (60 miles) of the coast.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf

The water represents emotion and it has that connection to the earth for people. I’m talking jungian archetype sort of thing.

I have friends here who say they absolutely have to be near the water; wouldn’t have it any other way.

Live within 100 miles of the US border.

Where did all the Canadians go?! Bring'em back!

It is about 6 1/2 minutes long but you can skip the first 2 minutes -- the actual dot stuff begins at 2:00 and ends at 5:42.

To cut viewing time short, to see some interesting transitions, you can start at 4:10 just before the Mongols arrive in China, and watch China's population dwindle for 2 centuries.

Or you can start at 4:30 just before the Black Plague, and watch Europe's numbers dwindle.

Or you can start at 5:00 which is about 1600 A.D. while the population is still quite modest outside of India and China, and watch the last 42 seconds.

1 dot = 1 million population

As for "OLD" version, it is much better than the newer version - the newer version flashes the dots that are added, very distracting and obscures what this is trying to show.

What's interesting is that China and India were always relatively highly populated. I read that in China / East Asia's case, that's because rice farming feeds a lot of people per acre.

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cranks it up. Too bad our brains aren't growing fast enough to manage the challenges.

Is there, I think. It’s the mechanism for rapid social change that is the problem, I think.

and India might be more to do with climate, but of course it is the climate that had to do with the abundance of rice.

Great find. Thank you.

How crowded it it, nearly everywhere i went was impossible to not notice.
This map sure confirms what I remember.

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which gives a better idea of the concentration. And some things I'd never known about - it shows the huge population around Chengdu and Chongqing, in the Sichuan Basin in China, far inland. (Chongqing municipality - area about 32,000 sq miles - about South Carolina; population 32 million - more than Texas, giving a population density about the same as Rhode Island).

Or the south-west coast of the Mediterranean: the coastal regions of Morocco and Algeria are more densely populated than Spain or France to the north of them. Each country has about twice the population I would have guessed.