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That’s like all I did today, haha.

Anyway.

Here’s a depressing website.

Informative, but depressing.

I can see people being critical of the lack of numbers/values/scale, but like they say in the video, they’re trying to make it something that anyone can understand from a purely visual standpoint. It’s something to get a conversation started, and even if that starting point is, “well, how legitimate is this? There isn’t even a scale or any indication of how different the light red is from the darker red,” then that’s still getting people talking. “Sparking conversation” as they say in the vid.

(Also, they do offer a scaled version of each display; click the “bars with scale” display option for a given location).

Here’s Calgary:

This is actually one of the least extreme ones. Look at Tucson:

Yikes.