Graphic Design is as much about creating artifical desire as it is about passing along information…and websites often being worthless when it comes to offering reliable information can be a frustrating experience.
Wouldn't it be novel if
I could actually provide information that could be verifiable and possibly even be usable
instead of my usual tripe?
Here's a little tidbit. The world's human population in 2008 is believed to be 6.6 billion. Hard to imagine what that means, or what possible point I am trying to make, but if we break down that figure in terms of space on the planet, we can get a visual that I find a little disturbing in terms of consumption.
According to World Resources and Technology, by L. Dudley Stamp Law and Contemporary Problems © 1960, there is approximately 36.5 billion acres of land on the planet.
This figure works out to about five acres of land per person.
Of course this figure includes Antarctica, the Sahara and the Arctic. All of which are arguably less than favorable places for habitation, but I also know that there are humans who eke out an existence there, so we could include them or not…but for the sake of my argument let's not.
The Sahara removes about 2.25 billion acres (if my questionable math skills are correct) and IF the combined area of the Arctic and Antarctic (which are shrinking due to the melt that is occurring) is around 3 billion acres then the land mass for humans to inhabit is reduced to 31 billion acres. That give us all about four acres of land a piece. An acre is a little over 200 feet square or 65 meters square. That means if humans are distributed equally across the planet. I could look in any direction and only 800 feet away from me would be another human being. That's less than a football field away from my nearest neighbor and their nearest neighbor all across the planet.
Assuming every human could ever consume the same amount of "goods." Where do we put the trash we individually generate per day? Especially Graphic designers?