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Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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Being reduced to one senator and ten house seats is going to be a blow for golf
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I don't understand how humans have been cramped together, and animals get massive fields of space !?
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I have driven through most of those places from edge to edge and I can tell you most of it is wrong. But cool map!
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I’m not sure what criteria this is based on. Missouri has cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, goats, cotton, soybeans, rice, and corn as our major agricultural exports.

We also supply Canada, Mexico, China, South Korea, and Japan with food

Corporate greed is running up food prices, not supply chain costs. When you live in the same area as the products are grown & raised, the cost of those products should not rise almost 400% in five years.
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I wonder if they had actually set aside that much space to indigenous plants, animals and peoples if we would actually have more food. Just in the form of Bison, rather than penned up beef.
in reply to Conrad Hackett :verified:

I grew up on a cattle ranch. The land you described is The Great American Desert. It is used for cattle because little else will thrive. My grandfather allocated 20 acres of pasture per cow, and the cattle shared it with antelope, coyotes, and snakes. I challenge your underlying assumption. The land is suited to grazing cattle.
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My husband and I took a 5-month trip across the southern tier of the country. I was first surprised to find so many cattle in Florida, only to be amazed that every single state’s farms were overwhelmingly cattle ranches. I remember being so confused - who knew cows were everywhere? Not me.
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That is excellent. I guess if all of USA went vegan & stopped eating cows & drinking their milk global warming could be overturned
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I’d highlight the space taken up by cows + livestock feed. (So little wilderness.)
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So we waste almost as much land on ethanol as we use for growing food when so many people suffer food insecurity.

Typically brilliant. 🙄

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_against_ethanol_bad_for_environment
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Before gobbling the Lindt, please be sure to read the Scientific American article where Jogalekar appropriately rips the research to shreds. Both a sampling issue and failure to account for third variables.
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@cenfetelli as a bit of a chocolate snob, I also have to question what the quality of chocolate is that's being consumed. If it was high quality 🍫 , the US wouldn't even rank on that graph. I spent the first three decades of my life there, and what Hersheys does to their chocolate is unspeakable 🤢
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@cenfetelli oooh, if money were no object I'd be having a selection of Bohemein Chocolates every week. Locally crafted chocolate by a pastry chef formerly from the Czech Republic. Wellington Chocolate Factory also a good time, very strict bean to bar standards.

But while I'm on a budget, Whittakers Dark Ghana is my go-to bar.
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oh, i didn't know we germans are world leaders. 😀
unfortunately only in chocolate consumption, not in number of nobel prizes. 😳
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interesting and strange reading. Will be interesting in stat math classes
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A fucking correlation. What they could try is to make one with politics...
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This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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Heaven help the cities on the coastlines during the next 50 years….as the sea levels change how will the map develop??
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OK, just at a glance, it looks like every butterfly in the world taking flight.
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learned today because of this map: Australia and Madagascar have roughly the same population
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Matching up that map with the areas being hardest hit by increasing heat is grim.
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This really makes that map that has the circle with more people living inside of it than outside of it a lot more intuitive.
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Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

More info: https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
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guess why?

#Healthcare isn't seen as a #HumanRight, but a #commodity in the #USA.

That's why #MedicalDebt is rampant and why the life expectancy is declining there as well...
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US healthcare is built on the same model as selling Big Macs. Keep services and cost of products to a minimum, while charging the max. It's immoral.
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Thanks for this chart - going to use it in a letter (email) to my MP…
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Estimated gender pay gap within job (same occupation at same firm)
🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z#
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
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I remember seeing a time map in the 90’s for how long you could use a stolen credit card based on location.
Trust criminals to innovate!
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2022 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
https://rsf.org/en/index
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in reply to Conrad Hackett :verified:

Surprised that Japan is 71 and India being the largest democratic country is 150. The bottom ones make sense though.
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Hey, aren't those first 3 countries where they don't get their undies in a bunch about socialism?
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Really strange for them to rank Taiwan so low. The only reason they give is that "journalists suffer from a very polarised media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit" - is this really any different from any other developed country? Seems like a strange reason. to lower the rank...
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It's fascinating and frightening to see how close supposed press freedom havens have drifted towards the bottom. If we also consider the "business partners" of EU and US, we get a picture of what free press really means to those - a nuisance at best.
in reply to Conrad Hackett :verified:

you are missing the most interesting examples like Costa Rica / an island of press freedom… maybe we should consider why? good examples are more useful bad ones ;)
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Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude.

The Gulf Stream makes winters less severe in many European cities than it is in their U.S./Canadian counterparts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d8tbs5/major_cities_and_towns_in_north_america_replaced/
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in reply to Conrad Hackett :verified:

My geography knowledge isn’t too embarrassing, but I have to continually remind myself of how high in latitude most of Europe is.
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Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
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That's crazy!! I was staring and staring at this, thinking "there are no circles here" and then my teenager walked in and glanced at it and pointed out the 16 circles right in front of me! Brains are weird.
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couldn’t get this until I saw the ⭕️ circle outlined in red. The mind gets very stuck in seeing things one way…
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I'd seen this one before, so I knew they were there. Still it took a bit of concentration to see them again.
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Only on a second look I discovered them. Truely a masterpiece of ingenuity
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Yup. Got them. You just have to let your eyes go out of phase for a second.
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80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch
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To me, the agreement is more striking than the differences. Majorities from all groups on all questions, and spread is always less than 20 points. And 66 percent of Blacks agreed with the 80 percent of Whites that perceived distractions. It seems to me the differences are less stark than your remarks implied to me.
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Slightly depressing that the dichotomy suggests there is little for White, Black and Hispanic to empathize and discuss on common ground…..
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This confirms that I definitely do not think like a white American.
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That is interesting. Especially that the question as a whole flips with Hispanics staying at the 60ish%
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The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
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Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job
🇹🇷 Turkey 15%
🇨🇴 Colombia 14%
🇲🇽 Mexico 13%
🇬🇷 Greece 10%
🇰🇷 S Korea 8%
🇨🇱 Chile 7%
🇯🇵 Japan 6%
🇦🇺 Australia 6%
🇫🇷 France 5%
🇬🇧 UK 4%
🇺🇸 US 3%
🇨🇦 Canada 3%
🇪🇸 Spain 3%
🇫🇮 Finland 2%
🇩🇪 Germany 2%
🇩🇰 Denmark 2%
🇸🇪 Sweden 1%
🇳🇴 Norway 1%
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We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A:

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000

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in reply to Conrad Hackett :verified:

we make movies about sharks, including the ones in tornados. But mosquito abatement spending is over 100m, which is probably less than the Sharknado films box office.
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it's always been a mystery to me how the Supreme Court can claim there to be no feasible and fair general solution to setting district boundaries, when there are in fact relatively simple algorithmic solutions.
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#Gerrymandering only works when those in power draw the districts' borders and not some independent comission based off census data.
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In #Ireland we would have one big constituency with all 50 people in it, that sends five representatives to the parliament. Three Blue, two Red, all representing the same area.
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Here is the outcome of that gerrymandering. Dems in WI won 60% of the vote. Republican bias and control mean that Madison and Milwaukee essentially have no representation in WI's statehouse.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/26/francesca-hong/state-gop-only-let-less-2-democratic-bills/
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honestly, this reason alone, is enough for me to support direct democracy.

We have the technology to do it. Why do we have “representatives” that don’t actually “represent” you?

Sounds like a bullshit job ripe for automation out of existence.

Have everyone vote on everything.
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This is an excellent and fascinating animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018
by @jburnmurdoch

Hang in - it takes a few seconds to begin. Twentieth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

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@jburnmurdoch

Animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018.

Whhoa!! Brilliant #scicomm ! And don't you just love the Fediverse that lets you download the gif as video so you can play it slower?
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I've seen that image a bunch of times before but it just occurred to me that you can draw 2 2x5 all blue districts in the rightmost columns and get the unfair outcome more compactly.
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got to make you wonder why we don't just do away with first past the post
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(Snails, mosquitos, and assassin bugs don't really kill people, it's the diseases/parasites they carry that do the killing.)
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wow, really surprised about the share of deadly snails. 😲

what could be done against the two most deadliest species? 🤔
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why do these "fun" statistics never include the number of animals that are being killed?

Every year, more than 150 Billion animals are killed by humans, for the most trivial of reasons.
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hmm, but to know how worried you should be when encountering one, you should divide by the # of encounters (or, as a proxy, total population)

If 1:50 encounters with a shark is deadly, but only 1:1000000000 human encounters is, then maybe our fears are much more grounded than this chart suggets...
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the people seems an undercount but guessing it includes homicides and suicides?
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Why do you exclude deaths from air pollution as being human-caused? The number is likely an order of magnitude higher, and ought to count just like manslaughter does.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths
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does the chart on we worry about the wrong things. People killed by Humans include people killed in automobile “accidents”? If so the number seems low to me.
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Except that mosquitoes kill almost no one. Things they vector might, but this misattribution places such a priority on wiping out mosquitoes that we are willing to ignore the important #EcologicalService provided by these important #insects.

We talk about how many people died from CoVID but we don't try to develop vaccines against the politicians who refused to take steps to reduce transmission. Blame the etiological agent, not the vector.
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technically its not the snails or the mosquitos that kill people, they just transmit diseases. And if you count that think how many people also kill people by transmitting diseases.
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mosquitoes are just doing what the evolved to do and we can protect ourselves in a lot of way, but men kill for no reason, so even though they are 2nd, men still feel more dangerous to me.
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fascinating as I never expected mosquitoes to top the list. Still think humans might improve their chances as some in power ignore #ClimateChange and others wage #War both of which could be huge.
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yep but Mosquito Bite or Proboscis just doesn’t have that same ring like Jaws or Shark Attack…
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So, if we get rid of the mosquitoes and the people, that solves 95% of the problem.

... wait.

@MariaIsmanah
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Ok, most of this I get... but how on Earth do snails kill over 16 times more people than sharks, elephants and hippos combined? People choking on escargot?! :blobcatthink:
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Would love to see this by population - eg. 10 shark deaths from XX total sharks vs 725,000 mosquito deaths from XX Billion mosquitoes.
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I saw this map recently with the comment that the Appalachians ain't shit, and a couple of people added on just how much older that mountain chain is. That there is a cave that's been forming for ~500 million years, which is before anything with bones even evolved to be fossilized. Respect the elders!
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a similar illusion is a part of Georgist culture, “seeing the cat”

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No idea why, but when I downloaded this image and rotated it 90 deg, I saw the circles immediately.
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That’s kind of strange how they’re hiding and then pop in and out of sight like that. Very fascinating!
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I hate this…and of course it is amazing. I started at that stupid picture for way too long then suddenly circles appeared
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This is the white/gold blue/black dress of Mastodon, 2022, isn't it? I cannot see circles, sadly.
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How did Sudbury and Thunder Bay suddenly become major cities? :) (I know, so the map could be made.)
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I always found it very interesting that cities in the cold north of America are on the same latitude as cities in southern Europe. Like Wisconsin and Monaco. Very different climates though.
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If my understanding is correct, as the polar ice sheets melt, desalination is causing ocean currents to "stutter". It contributes to weather patterns like heat domes, atmospheric rivers, and polar votexes.

Wouldn't the Humboldt current along western North America get impacted like the Gulf current too?
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If freedom of the press includes the right to print hate speech, the UK should be far higher
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I find the statistical information very entertaining on this page =)
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That is insane. The human species has got to do better, or else, we are, literally and figuratively, toast!
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1) Only an idiot wouldn't see the encroaching problems.

2) Half of Congress are idiots.
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@roland HI, I hope it's okay for me to coment on your image description. Unfortunately it doesn't fulfil its purpose, because it doesn't mention the name of the country. I assume sighted people can read it in the image, so you would need to mention it in the description for it to work as intended.
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great graph that helps identifying from whom to learn how to improve healthcare value for money spent ... 👍
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Striking, shocking, and we lack the social will to do anything about it :(
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@Oiselarius and don’t forget if you’re a caregiver or if you need the care provided in a facility they’ll take most of your dependent’s property before they’ll pay you or the facility. #EndEstateReclamation.
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@Oiselarius and don’t forget if you’re a caregiver or if you need the care provided in a facility they’ll take most of your dependent’s property before they’ll pay you or the facility. #EndEstateReclamation.
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I'm curious how the US would look if gun-related deaths were removed from the LE calculation.
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America leaves millions without health insurance (even with the Affordable Care Act) and manages to have worse health outcomes than than Europe:
From the CIA Factbook
• Maternal mortality: 48 countries do better.
• Infant mortality: 55 countries do better.
• Life expectancy at birth: 41 countries do better.
• Adult obesity: 173 countries do better.
• Children under 5 clinically underweight: 7 countries do better.
/cont…
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This reminds me of the GUnsplatter. have you seen that one. I do and can show you if you like. it is a similiar eyeopener
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@MoralityPLS I've seen a lot of data on how the US is exceptional with regard to gun ownership/deaths but I'm not sure what you have in mind.
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The current UK government have been planning for the ‘Americanisation’ of our National Heath Service for years. This diagram suggests that is not a good idea and those in the UK complacent about the health service should be sure to defend it before it’s too late.
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What's more interesting for me in the UK, is the countries spending the same but with better outcomes, and more interestingly still, the countries spending less with better outcomes.
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Seems like something is wrong re the UK - which has one of the higher population densities in the world. Or is this not measuring people per square metre type population density? p.s.Nice of you to mention New Zealand - a lot of maps leave it off completely! 😛 (This toot and tooter is created in New Zealand)
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north end of South America leaves NE USA in the dust, yet I suspect many English-speaking urbanists would struggle to name a major city that isn't a capital....
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No surprise, that Finland with it's 338 440 km² and 5.5 inhabitants doesn't make it to the map, hah!
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so basically China, India … and a few other people. That represents the future world order.
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I find this map less dramatic but far more accurate: http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#7/11.851/8.339
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Interesting to see the populationdensity in India and China versus just about everywhere else, but also to really sharply see how many of us live within 100 miles of a coastline.
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This is an interesting map. I have to say I am moderately pleased that where I live is mostly flat green. 🙂
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that is quite intriguing, thanks for sharing. I’m all for non-conventional thinking and anything that sparks cognitive curiosity
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It's interesting that a single private company owns enough land to make this map.
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Your alt text appreciated; Bloomberg's graphic is strictly overview only and not as rigorous as your products, it seems. This one is ambiguous and inconsistent - largest land-owning families could have been applied like the cut timber/wildfires pseudo-venn-diagram splits, or the sectors they mainly occupy, etc etc.
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Fantastic #map! I have used this when teaching about "How much area would #renewableenergy require in the #USA?" Many people believe that we must use either fossil fuels or nuclear power for energy production, because renewable energy (#solarpower, wind) supposedly takes too much area. Turns out, not at all, we could easily do this :-)

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/how-much-area-would-renewable-energy-require/

@edutooters
@scienceteachers
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Very cool visual
but not seeing where conventional fossil energy sits?
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It's good they're all in the middle though, much less there than at the coasts. Although I can think of more efficient places to grow livestock feed.
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""One man liked milk, now he owns a million cows/Can you imagine all that milk? Tell me that I'm dreaming - Was (Not Was)
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Interested in the amount of horse-devoted rangeland. To listen to cattle ranchers, wild horses are overwhelming their operations. Do you imagine pasture devoted to Kentucky's race horse industry, for instance, would be under that heading?

Have sought a reliable source for an equine census for years.
Could some of the near doubling in wealthy landowner property be for horse operations?
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I wonder how much of "urban commercial" is actually just parking lots.
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This is one of many reasons why there is no way out of some form of collapse. People keep ignoring that the low hanging fruit is a change of their diets and rather stick to hopium in that we’re somehow invent our way out of the meta-crisis.
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You forgot the most important use of land in the US: growing grass. 😡 It's the US's biggest crop.
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@privacat @kcarruthers https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/04/worlds-deadliest-animals-mosquito/
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I question this map after looking at the second one on Bloomberg which more accurately portrays my state of #Maine. At first glance it shows the majority of land use in Maine is urban housing, which is far from true.
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This actually makes sense to me. Imagine you had 10 acres to house and feed a family of four. This might actually be a reasonable allotment of land. Wonder what the #homesteading community thinks?
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Always fascinating how urban housing and rural housing take up about the same amount!