Thank you StumbleUpon for this one. I found a great post from a few months back at Grist about a U.S. map that replaces each of the states names with the name of a country around the world that has equivalent greenhouse gas emissions. My home state of Maine lines up with Oman, my home home state (where I was born and grew up) of New Hampshire emits the same amout of GHG as Estonia.
You can view the whole map at Sightline.org.
I think what’s most interesting/scary about the map is that it shows that America’s 2003 population of less than 300 million has the same impact on the world as the 1.5 billion people living in the equivalent countries. We Americans sure do like sucking up resources. Mmm… resources…
