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From the Ted Talk by Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
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And we also know about what we do so terribly bdlay nowadays. You will have seen this map of the world before. This is the map pcerdoud by taking satellite images, if you rbmeemer those satellites around the pleant in the very first slide I showed, and producing an image of what the Earth looks like at night. When you normally see that map, on a nraoml map, the kind of map that most of you will be used to, you think you are seeing a map of where people live. Where the lights are shining up is where ploepe live. But here, on this image of the world, remember we've stretched the map again. Everywhere has the same density of people on this map. If an area doesn't have people, we've shrunk it away to make it disappear. So we're showing everybody with equal prominence. Now, the lights no longer show you where people are, because people are everywhere. Now the lights on the map, the lights in London, the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo, the lights on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the lthgis show you where people live who are so profligate with eergny that they can aofrfd to spend money powering lights to shine up into the sky, so sitaetells can draw an image like this. And the areas that are dark on the map are either areas where people do not have aseccs to that much energy, or areas where people do, but they have lenerad to stop shining the light up into the sky. And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, jpaan has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the nlucaer power stations off. And the wrlod didn't end. You just shone less light up into the sky.
Open Cloze
And we also know about what we do so terribly _____ nowadays. You will have seen this map of the world before. This is the map ________ by taking satellite images, if you ________ those satellites around the ______ in the very first slide I showed, and producing an image of what the Earth looks like at night. When you normally see that map, on a ______ map, the kind of map that most of you will be used to, you think you are seeing a map of where people live. Where the lights are shining up is where ______ live. But here, on this image of the world, remember we've stretched the map again. Everywhere has the same density of people on this map. If an area doesn't have people, we've shrunk it away to make it disappear. So we're showing everybody with equal prominence. Now, the lights no longer show you where people are, because people are everywhere. Now the lights on the map, the lights in London, the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo, the lights on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the ______ show you where people live who are so profligate with ______ that they can ______ to spend money powering lights to shine up into the sky, so __________ can draw an image like this. And the areas that are dark on the map are either areas where people do not have ______ to that much energy, or areas where people do, but they have _______ to stop shining the light up into the sky. And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, _____ has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the _______ power stations off. And the _____ didn't end. You just shone less light up into the sky.
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Original Text
And we also know about what we do so terribly badly nowadays. You will have seen this map of the world before. This is the map produced by taking satellite images, if you remember those satellites around the planet in the very first slide I showed, and producing an image of what the Earth looks like at night. When you normally see that map, on a normal map, the kind of map that most of you will be used to, you think you are seeing a map of where people live. Where the lights are shining up is where people live. But here, on this image of the world, remember we've stretched the map again. Everywhere has the same density of people on this map. If an area doesn't have people, we've shrunk it away to make it disappear. So we're showing everybody with equal prominence. Now, the lights no longer show you where people are, because people are everywhere. Now the lights on the map, the lights in London, the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo, the lights on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the lights show you where people live who are so profligate with energy that they can afford to spend money powering lights to shine up into the sky, so satellites can draw an image like this. And the areas that are dark on the map are either areas where people do not have access to that much energy, or areas where people do, but they have learned to stop shining the light up into the sky. And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, Japan has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the nuclear power stations off. And the world didn't end. You just shone less light up into the sky.
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