Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
why?
Notice how most of 'em don't even bother to show the deep interior of Antarctica.
If you aren't a geologist or similar - how much of the importance of a place is due to the people living there?
> Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.
It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countries abstaining, and no other right-wing nationalist regime siding with the US.
Vs. NPR found an angle that'd push their reader's buttons, and figured their job was done.
Glad I stopped donating to NPR in the early aughties.
> "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read.
I dunno, bro, "more accurate map" seems less "ideological" than "refuse to contemplate anything that could be perceived by the most fragile people alive as diminishing the US."
Sometimes it gets harder and harder to understand why certain things trigger these children.
Might be a joke, might not. Who knows, with this crew
When I look at a map - political or geographic - my primary observation is the shapes of the nations or landforms. Not the size.