Graphically Speaking Project

L. David Roper, roperld@vt.edu

http://www.roperld.com/personal/roperldavid.htm

Introduction

This projects involves creating a graph of importance to the future of human civilization and explaining it in words.

Natural Resources

List of ideas for the graphs (current status in parentheses):

• Availability of Crude Oil in the United States
• Availability of Natural Gas in the United States
• Availability of Coal in the United States and the World
• World Population
• World Fisheries (rough draft)
• World Arable Land
• World Cereal Production
• Future Ice Ages
• Polar Ice Melting and Sea-Level Rise
• Income and Wealth Distribution in the United States
• Global Warming
• High-Speed Rail
• Price of Crude Oil
• Ocean Currents
• Electric Cars
• Resources Depletion
• Droughts and Floods in the United States
• LED Light Bulbs
• Extreme Weather
• Human Intelligence Evolution
• Limits to Growth Prediction of 2030 World Collapse