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Sustainable:
From: xkcd
Pondering sustainability through an xkcd lens took me to other “green” ngrams. As described by xkcd, the graph represents the frequency of the use of each word in Google books, 1800-2008:
From: Google ngrams
Then I checked what we eat:
From: Google ngrams
Ngrams should provide some pretty good clues about our resource use.
Sources and Resources: If you want to investigate our ngram further, add some words or check out their math, do go to my ngram viewer. And here is some recent insight about ngrams from the Atlantic. For more xkcd, here is “sustainable.”
Elaine Schwartz
I am Elaine Schwartz, an economics writer, teacher, and the founder of econlife®. In so many places and ways, I have tried to make economics interesting and accessible so we could be personally, professionally, and politically knowledgeable.
