Sierra Magazine Visualizes Global Carbon Footprints With a U.S. Map

The numbers themselves are scary: with 4.5% of the global population, the United States contributes to 20% of the world's carbon emissions. We've all heard these types of statistics, but as it is often the case, numbers don't always create as much of an impact on the psyche as images do. Pictures are, after all, worth a thousand words. But this map created by the wonderful folks at Sierra Magazine is worth more like a billion.

Taking the carbon footprints of each state and labeling it with it's global counterpart of equal environmental impact, we are presented with an infographic that is scary as much as it is amazing.

[read more about it, here]