05/09/2026
Fundamentally this has been a question of education, or to be more precise, a lack of education. Elsewhere I have read most Americans lack much world geography awareness and that reduces their need to embrace other cartographies; and the only nation to oppose the UN resolution.
Recognising the purpose of the map should be sufficient context for wanting a different map view. Back as far as the ealry 1970s I was supporting the use of Peter's projection for map posters in schools - Peters projection is designed to show accurate area, whereas Mercator is designed for distance - specifically for navigation.
Anoher example of how the distant world has become the close world in which the measure of distance can be replaced with the measure of relationship
UN votes to ‘reduce size of Britain and US’ in new map
