Guess the Map III: The Map Lover's Paradise

[emzie]

Brazil and the USA would be way higher if it were salt.

Mmmmm delicious salt.

Neither it nor rubber. Far more ubiquitous.

 

[Tee Kay]

Plastic bags?

 

[madviking]

Pencils

 

[dwaxe]

Silicon?

 

[dido]

tantalum?

 

[W|M]

Pens?

 

[emzie]

The map isn't just measuring direct consumption, but total consumption, including the use of this resource in industrial processes you end up using.

It's so common that it's likely on many of your desks.

Pens?

How are pens a resource

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Clay?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Puppies ?

Opium ?

Communism ?

 

[emzie]

Opium ?

Is on your desk right now?

*checks flights to Bucharest*

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Puppies ?

I haven't had a dog since we had to send Tippy off to be properly trained with a shepard. My parents said Wales at the time, but it turned out to be Wexford.

Opium ?

That's just naughty.

Communism ?

Too big to fit on a desk.

 

[ZeletDude]

Paper/Wood

 

[emzie]

Clay?

Paper/Wood

It's vital to producing these, and if you use paper / wood / clay, that is counting towards your total consumption as indicated in the map.

 

[ZeletDude]

Water? (I don't know.. lol)

 

[dwaxe]

Pulp?

 

[emzie]

Water? (I don't know.. lol)

Yes.

Map is water consumption when considering all uses, or "virtual water use" -- that is, you're not just measuring what you drink, how much you shower, how much you water your lawn, but how much water it takes to grow the corn to feed the beef you ate for dinner.

 

[ZeletDude]

Open floor.

 

[W|M]

Red means a country has 1 of something, Orange means 2 and Yellow means 3.

 

[dwaxe]

does it have to do with rivers? Or coal?

 

[Tee Kay]

Some kind of scientific instrument?