The Victory of Equal Earth Over an Unequal One

The blatant distortions of the Mercator projection and its Eurocentric approach gave rise to several alternatives, particularly among broad-left or progressive cartographers. Fianlly, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another.   By Prabir Purkayastha Source: Globetrotter   Last week, […]