Name aside, this new Atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) really shows just how connected we all are.
From the UNEP press release:

“Klaus Toepfer, UNEP’s Executive Director, said: “People living in San Francisco or London may look at these images of deforestation or melting Arctic ice, and wonder what it has to do with them. That these changes are the result of other people’s lifestyles and consumption habits hundreds and thousands of kilometres away. But they would be wrong.”

“Cities pull in huge amounts of resources including water, food, timber, metals and people. They export large amounts of wastes including household and industrial wastes, wastewater and the gases linked with global warming. Thus their impacts stretch beyond their physical borders affecting countries, regions and the planet as a whole,” he added.

Oh, and you can also download the entire book as a series of pdfs and print your own. But just to warn you, it’s ginormous.

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