Hi, I’m actually the creator of that webpage. I’ll probably delete this comment later to protect my anonymity on lemmy, but while I have you here I’d like to address this concern. I actually did consider a few sections on climate change, and the main thing that stopped me is that the scale of the climate emergency is so much more massive than people generally understand.
A to-scale illustration of the cost to solve climate change would be thousands of times larger than this graphic, and even then, international cooperation and climate denialism would remain major hurdles. I considered some smaller ticket items like “cost to install electric car chargers in every city” and stuff like that, but everything I came up with made only a small dent on its own.
Eventually, I began work on another project visualizing the world’s largest carbon emitters, which really got to the heart of the matter in displaying corporate greed, but at that point it would have been my fourth doom scroll visualization project, and I had had enough.
It also seems very American to me that there is not a single mention of climate change in there
Hi, I’m actually the creator of that webpage. I’ll probably delete this comment later to protect my anonymity on lemmy, but while I have you here I’d like to address this concern. I actually did consider a few sections on climate change, and the main thing that stopped me is that the scale of the climate emergency is so much more massive than people generally understand.
A to-scale illustration of the cost to solve climate change would be thousands of times larger than this graphic, and even then, international cooperation and climate denialism would remain major hurdles. I considered some smaller ticket items like “cost to install electric car chargers in every city” and stuff like that, but everything I came up with made only a small dent on its own.
Eventually, I began work on another project visualizing the world’s largest carbon emitters, which really got to the heart of the matter in displaying corporate greed, but at that point it would have been my fourth doom scroll visualization project, and I had had enough.