okay, our YouTube map animations have to take a turn for the interesting and meaningful or I'm gonna lose my shit (read: interest.)
This one above is part of a talk by some Canadian dude about who knows what. The data presented here are interesting, though. The first part is simply oil production between 1965 and 2005. The second one is oil production AND consumption. And if you look at the US, those Gil-Scott Heron lyrics (from 1984) start running through my head.
What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune...the consumer has got to dance. That's the way it is. We used to be a producer – very inflexible at that, and now we are consumers and finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and minerals will change your world. The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World. They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st one. Controlling your resources will control your world. This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now.
Yes indeedy, it has. We should be seeing animated maps like this on the nightly news. The government should be reporting our resource usage to us like a department at a staff meeting: "Today's metrics are ..."
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