Posted by Joe on: 09.18.2008 /
Worldmapper is an interesting university collaboration which aims to enable us to see the world in new ways. They have a lot of interesting maps, I really recommend you go and have a look at some of them.
I am really interested by these two:
This has countries sized by their clothing exports.
And this one their clothing imports:
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Comment by: Benjamin
1 09/18/08 10:23 PM | Comment Link |Joe,
That is *fascinating*. Thank you for sharing.
It kind of … makes me rethink my clothing buying/wearing habits.
Comment by: joe
2 09/19/08 1:57 AM | Comment Link |B - perhaps it is not the scariest map in the series - check out the one on HIV infections - but I think it illustrates something about the reality of millions of people being classed as ‘producers’ and others as ‘consumers’, to the extent that describing the world as a system of Apartheid is not far from the truth.
Also I was thinking about the parallel notions of ‘giver’ and ‘receiver’ in relation to giving.
Comment by: Elaine
3 09/19/08 10:07 AM | Comment Link |Joe - this is a great map. I found them last year and was blown away with how the visual communicates so much more than words can.
thanks for sharing it. it is a good reminder