The world drawn to scale

Another interesting discovery I found when researching Buckminster Fuller has to be that the map of the world we see in the class room is not drawn to scale. Yet for many years there was a map drawn to scale which could be used.  

 




When you look at the map, it looks like one of the channel islands you would come across on the global world map. Buckminster Fuller has said that Politicians, were not to keen if we saw the world "drawn to scale" as it might change there views on world economics.

 

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Above is the map which is used today, it leaves one thinking that we are all surrounded by sea, and all the countries can not be reached by car and are seperated by sea. Buckminster was a person who felt people should know the truth about the world they live in and a map of the world drawn to scale was a classic example.

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