this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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I do believe our maps have influenced people's ideas quite a lot and maybe even led some people towards flat eartherism. I have a friend who believes Trump wants Greenland because of this very projection and it's absurd overexaggeration.
Not to mention, and mildly relevant to OP, it also obscures the comically large and absolutely real size of the Pacific Ocean:
finally a map only with New Zealand