[100-2] Balance of Trade 2003

Countries in black have a positive trade balance -- the red ones have a negative one.

[84] Fault Lines

[70] Refugee Republic

Dotting the globe, the estimated 47 million refugees account for 1% of the world population. If it were possible for refugees to pack and take with them a proportional part of their country (measured at the world-wide average of approximately 37 people per square kilometer) it would piece together into a state the size of France, Germany, England and Italy combined (or more than twice the size of Texas)
The width of the arrows indicates the relative amount of refugees (1970/80s)

[45-2] Wittgenstein

[13] Population Volume

Size of white rectangle equals size of population. The question will not be what, but how to feed a population which will exceed 10 billion in the next century. Since 1985, due to agricultural engineering advances, the earth has yielded more food than we can possibly consume; yet geopolitical structures continue to leave millions of people dying of starvation.

[319] Submarine Fiberoptic Network

The width of lines represents transmission capacity.