As a geoscientist and someone who produces maps (and also just as a human who understands science), this particular flavor of willful ignorance blows my mind. It makes me sad for the kids who trust their parents and will eventually have to unlearn this shit or carry on fundamentally misunderstanding the Earth. I also can’t help but wonder what jank projection is being used here to display the continents in 2D lol. Looks like a polar projection centered on the north pole which is why the continents are distorted around the edges ending up with a “wall of ice” all around which is really just a very distorted Antarctica. There’s a reason we don’t use polar projections to represent the Earth on a global scale.
As a geoscientist and someone who produces maps (and also just as a human who understands science), this particular flavor of willful ignorance blows my mind. It makes me sad for the kids who trust their parents and will eventually have to unlearn this shit or carry on fundamentally misunderstanding the Earth. I also can’t help but wonder what jank projection is being used here to display the continents in 2D lol. Looks like a polar projection centered on the north pole which is why the continents are distorted around the edges ending up with a “wall of ice” all around which is really just a very distorted Antarctica. There’s a reason we don’t use polar projections to represent the Earth on a global scale.