Animated Infographic: Unspilling the Gulf Oil
By Maria Popova
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill, one of the largest environmental disasters in history. On Monday, we revisited photographer Edward Burtynsky’s gripping Oil series as a visceral reminder of just how dependent we are on this highly politicized resource. Today, Brooklyn-based animator Chris Harmon approaches the same subject from an entirely different angle: A numbers-driven infographic animation illustrating the exact scale of the spill by exploring what could’ve been done with the 205,000,000 (that’s million) gallons that poured into the Gulf.
The 205 million gallons of oil lost in the Gulf is the same amount the United States consumes in less than 7 hours.”
For a more serious and in-depth look at the oil economy, you won’t go wrong with Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin’s The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power.
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Published April 27, 2011
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/04/27/gulf-oil-spill-animated-infographic/
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