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by stephbook 3 days ago
The Mercator hate is a remnant of the turn of the decade. The unprivileged "global south" is smaller than Greenland!!

Except that Google Maps (yes maps, not Google Earth) has shown a globe for a decade now.

And, of course, pupils do have access to a globe. But somehow, people always frame it as an unfulfilled necessity that perpetuates "global power imbalances" or stuff like that.