United States

Charts change hearts and minds better than words do

An employee of Nissan Motor Co monitors real-time power usage data at the company's facilities at the Oppama plant in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo July 2, 2011. With 35 of Japan's 54 nuclear power plants shut, the Japanese government has ordered big companies to cut their peak power consumption by 15 percent from last year this summer, in the first such mandate since the oil crisis of 1974. To meet the target, the auto industry has changed its weekend holidays to Thursdays and Fridays between July and September. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: TRANSPORT ENERGY)

The power of a visual. Image: REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: TRANSPORT ENERGY)

Christopher Ingraham
Writer, Wonk Blog
Share:
Our Impact
The Big Picture
Explore and monitor how United States is affecting economies, industries and global issues
A hand holding a looking glass by a lake
Crowdsource Innovation
Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale
Stay up to date:

United States

The Iraq surge chart shown to study participants.
The Iraq surge chart shown to study participants. Image: Nyhan and Reifler
Image: Nyhan and Reifler
The job chart shown to study participants.
The job chart shown to study participants. Image: Nyhan and Reifler
Image: Nyhan and Reifler
The global-temperature-change chart shown to study participants.
The global-temperature-change chart shown to study participants. Image: Nyhan and Reifler
Image: Nyhan and Reifler
Have you read?
Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

Sign up for free

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

Related topics:
United StatesInequalityGlobal Governance
Share:
World Economic Forum logo
Global Agenda

The Agenda Weekly

A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda

Subscribe today

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. For more details, review our privacy policy.

More on United States
See all

First Movers Coalition: over 90 members send world's largest clean demand signal for emerging climate technologies

December 1, 2023

These 3 electricity regimes give us a glimpse of our global energy future

Lamé Verre, Sharif Al Olama and Ayla Majid

November 30, 2023

About Us

Events

Media

More from the Forum

Partners & Members

  • Join Us

Language Editions

Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

© 2023 World Economic Forum