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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
How long is it going to last?
New Scientist magazine recently published a ridiculous chart discussing the depletion of the world's resources. Their chart had an Comic Network aesthetic with bold colors and fat radial lines exploding outwards. Unfortunately, it entirely missed the reason why we make charts: to communicate an argument by using our eye's ability to compare amounts across a page.
The chart above is my version, and the New Scientist's original is below.
The theory about resource depletion comes from Hubbert's Peak. The theory about chartjunk comes from Tufte's groundbreaking, beautiful, and expensive books (all three of them), as well as from Rafe M.J. Donahue's outstanding free course notes on information design.
» posted by Guillaume Marceau @ 11:00 AM 
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I like your version, yet another perspective and definitely more intuitive than the original. But as all this discussion goes on I am getting more confused about the whole topic of depletion!
Ridiculus, we have only been excavating a few percent of the crust, we got a whole lot of dirt left to extract resources from and then there is always the lumps of metals and dusts that just is waiting to mining in that great void outside of earth's atmosphere.
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