2/21/2024 0 Comments Mormon church flat earth map![]() When trying to explain the near-religious devotion to irrigated landscapes, Mormons often quote a verse from the Old Testament (Isaiah 35:1-2) that inspired their 19th-century pioneer ancestors who settled in Utah: “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” And why the state has long supported a heavily subsidized water pricing system and zoning laws that encourage, if not flat-out demand, a yard full of well-tended grass. ![]() It explains why Utah uses more municipal water than any state in the country, except for Idaho. ![]() This Mormon version of Manifest Destiny is at the heart of why Utahns suck up so much municipal water as well as why the state is moving at a dangerously glacial pace to deal with the climate crisis. “This warped worldview might even bias you, subconsciously, to under-appraise most of the developing world.For many Mormons in Utah – who make up two-thirds of the state’s population of 3 million – the concept of being a good steward is wrapped up in a pioneer nostalgia that favors an artificial, irrigated landscape over the natural desert environment. “If you have a Mercator projection on your classroom walls, for example, you may grow up thinking Greenland is the size of Africa (not even close) or Alaska looms larger than Mexico (also nope).” Sokol wrote. The act of converting a three-dimensional object into something two-dimensional inevitably introduces distortions. Joshua Sokol of The New York Times writes that no flat map of a round world can be perfectly accurate. We’re proposing a radically different kind of map.” (via EarthSky) Previous world maps “We’re doing this to break a record, to make the flat map with the least error possible. ![]() adds that the new map features smaller distance errors than any other single-sided flat map.Īccording to EarthSky, Gott compares his team’s radical map-making approach to the way Dick Fosbury introduced a new high jumping technique to break records at the 1968 Olympics. While the new circular map features a few spacial distortions, reports that it doesn’t downsize or enlarge the areas of certain oceans or landmasses like other two-dimensional maps. Flat world maps have all kinds of distortions (hello, Africa is actually 14x the size of Greenland!), but these new coasters are more accurate than most /QmntLm7Agv- Laura Geggel February 23, 2021 ![]()
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