For both graphs, we had plotted the average of each region, represented by the dots labeled with their region name. The faint blue dots represent individual countries. These two visualizations directly show how a country's GDP may affect their sustainability efforts through their total greenhouse gas emissions and how much renewable energy they use. Ideally, in the first visualization, the countries with a higher GDP will also have a lower total greenhouse gas emission. However, as countries develop, the factories they create may not be the most environmentally friendly. In the second visualization, we had originally expected the countries with a higher GDP to have a higher renewable energy consumption. However, what ended up being shown is that the countries with a lower GDP have a higher rate of using renewable energy. The last visualization shows the correlation between poverty and air pollution.

So What?

As seen from LCS, Latin America and Caribbean, and ECS, Europe and Central Asia, it is clear that there are at least two ways trying to maintain the balance of growing the economy and sustainability. LCS clearly focused more on sustainbility and ECS focused on GDP. Additionally, LCS is a great example of how to be more sustainable than countries that have a higher GDP.