Olympic ring

As a final (I hope) salute to the Olympic Games 2012, I give you a series of infographics produced by artist Gustavo Sousa:

It has nothing to do with the actual Games, really. Sousa uses the Olympic rings (can I say that without IOC or LOCOG siccing their lawyers on me) as a framework for giving statistics on social issues like global population, obesity, carbon dioxide emissions and Coca-Cola consumption.

He purposely left out a key, so you’d have to ponder for yourself which ring represents which continent; but here’s a spoiler: yellow = Africa, red = Americas, blue = Oceana, black = Europe, green = Asia.

Run through it a few times. It’s really quite thought-provoking.