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YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection (correctthemap.org)

submitted 1 year ago by drmoose@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Since this article gave you everything except the one thing you want to see, here's what the Equal Earth projection looks like

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it is an awful website with an awful promotion video. Sizing the countries down but not connecting them and not showing you the world map as it would look like in total is absolutely not furthering the cause. I'm so mad I'm not sure I even want to sign the petition to be honest. Granted, my school atlas did not have the mercator projection.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

What really disappoints me about that site is the button that reads "Download the Correct Map". They destroyed all their credibility with one word.

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Oh God I didn't even notice that, you're absolutely right. Or, dare I say, you are correct.

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago*

Yeh, I mean I can see how using Mercator is subconsciously strengthening colonialist thinking, but to imply that the angles-stable area-distorted map that was much more convenient for naval navigation, was specifically chosen to misrepresent the size of the global south is borderline paranoid.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Damn Russia is still that big? I thought the distortion played a large part in its size on the original map.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Pfft. Antarctica is but a few islands in an ice-sheet trench coat. If the ice sheets melted, it would remain uninhabited except for some stalwart rancher folk.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

you need to tag nudity as NSFW

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[–] BangCrash@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Greenland's not that big is it?

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes it's still quite big, but not nearly as big as Australia (as Mercator would suggest). On a globe it is quite obvious, but who has a globe at home in 2025...

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I do.

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