Visualizing Environmental Science

Tons of oil (billions)

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1950 1960 1970 1980

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1990 2000 2010

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c. Oil Refinery at Grangemouth,

United Kingdom.

Both highly developed and developing

countries depend largely on oil for

economic development.

b. This section of forest in British Columbia, Canada, has been

clear cut, leaving it vulnerable to erosion.

Annual World Oil Consumption, 1950 to 2007.

This increase is unsustainable.

a. A worker prepares frozen giant blue fin tuna

for auction at a the Tsukiji market in Tokyo,

Japan. These increasingly rare fish are caught

around the globe.

Tom Bonaventure/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images, Inc.

Based on data from U. S. Dept.of Energy Information Agency,World energy database.

Keith Douglas/All Canada Photos/SuperStock, Inc.

© AHowden/Japan Stock Photography/Alamy

Environmental InSight

Environmental exploitation

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Interpreting Data

By approximately how much did

annual world oil consumption

increase in the past 20 years? Is the

increase sustainable? Why or why not?

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