Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
דני דורלינג: מפות שמראות לנו מי אנחנו (ולא רק היכן אנחנו)
Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world. Full bio
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have seen the planet depicted before.
that you're very familiar with.
before we saw this image.
שנולדתי לפני שראינו את התמונה הזו.
were "moona, moona,"
"ירח, ירח",
having a particular fantasy
black and white TV screen.
thought of our planet as spherical.
these images in the 1960s,
בשנות השישים,
at an incredible rate.
of human geography,
של גיאוגרפיה אנושית,
many people are drawn larger,
מצויירים כגדולים יותר,
like the Sahara and the Himalayas,
have been shrunk away.
is given an equal amount of space.
מקבל איזור מחיה בגודל שווה.
submarine cables and trade routes.
ונתיבי מסחר.
that goes from the Chinese port of Dalian
and round to Rotterdam.
largest ship just a year ago,
הייתה הספינה הגדולה ביותר בעולם.
so many containers of goods
they would have been 100 kilometers long.
היה לה אורך של מאה קילומטרים.
we are now moving around the world,
שאנחנו מעבירים כיום מסביב לעולם,
for a very long time,
one of the world's first cities.
of others' houses to get to their home.
של בתים אחרים כדי להגיע לביתם.
at the map of the city,
incredibly quickly most recently.
seven, or eight generations
that we are a species.
is the map of world population,
showing how we spread out of Africa
שמראים איך התפרשנו מחוץ לאפריקה
where we think we arrived
לאן אנו חושבים שהגענו
every few months,
כל כמה חודשים
that a particular date was wrong.
at an incredible speed.
growth in the world.
from the moon of our planet,
was growing at two percent a year.
בקצב של שני אחוזים בשנה.
at two percent a year
"the population bomb" in 1968.
at the end of the graph,
the '90s, the noughties,
העשור הראשון של שנות האלפיים,
10, or 11 billion people
או 11 מיליארד תושבים
in 1918 from influenza.
we tend to concentrate on.
on the terrible events in the news.
on the gradual change
get away from people.
changed again to make area large,
כך שיוגדלו האיזורים
people are from each area.
where to go to get away from everybody,
כדי להתרחק מכולם,
we are coming off the land globally.
מוותרים על חיים חקלאיים.
across the continent.
where the water falls on our planet.
את האיזורים מרובי המשקעים בעולם.
Africa, Asia, and Europe,
אפריקה, אסיה ואירופה,
a large number of people living there
there is a great deal of rainfall as well.
ירדו הרבה גשמים.
the map be shaped by people,
moving around the planet,
זזים על פני כדור הארץ,
to have a heartbeat.
we grow our food in the world.
most for rice and maize and corn.
להפקת אורז ותירס.
be enough food, but we know,
אבל אנחנו יודעים,
and fed less of the crops to animals,
והיינו מאכילים את החיות בפחות יבול,
as one group of people.
כקבוצת אנשים אחת.
of the world before.
around the planet
מסביב לכדור הארץ
of what the Earth looks like at night.
איך נראה כדור הארץ בלילה.
that most of you will be used to,
a map of where people live.
המראה היכן אנשים גרים.
is where people live.
of people on this map.
יש את אותה צפיפות אנשים.
where people are,
היכן אנשים נמצאים,
the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo,
האורות בטוקיו,
of the United States,
do not have access to that much energy,
אין גישה לכמות אנרגיה כה רבה,
shining the light up into the sky.
animated over time,
has actually become darker,
on a quarter less electricity
בשלושה רבעים מכמות החשמל,
the nuclear power stations off.
at an incredible rate.
in their first year of life in the world
שמתו בשנה הראשונה לחייהם
going to university in the world
שהולכים לאוניברסיטאות ברחבי העולם
after good news story
better in the planet,
put it brilliantly,
ניסחה את זה בצורה מבריקה
of incremental, imperceptible changes
של השינויים הבלתי-נתפסים
and which render our era
nature of gradual transformation,
של שינוי הדרגתי,
the population slowing down.
becoming more connected.
improvements in understanding.
השיפורים המדהימים בהבנה.
how we are learning to begin
in proportion to those people.
city in the world in China,
העיר הגדולה בעולם בסין
an urbanizing world,
to be frightened about,
to fear each other as much as we do,
כמו שקורה כיום,
that we are now living in a new world.
שאנחנו חיים עכשיו בעולם חדש.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Danny Dorling - Social geographerDanny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world.
Why you should listen
Danny Dorling has invented new map projections and new ways of measuring and describing inequality -- and analyzed thousands of datasets about people and the planet. He is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty.
In the press, Dorling has been described as "that rare university professor: expert, politically engaged and able to explain simply why his subject matters," and as one who has made it "his life's work to dig through the layers that make up Britain's human landscape, and then map it in ways nobody else had thought to do." Working with many others, he has done the same for all the countries of the world "giving a strikingly different perspective from the Mercator projection most commonly used." All this mapping lead him to worry more about inequality.
His recent books include co-authored texts The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live, Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change, and People and Places a 21st-century Atlas of the UK. Recent sole-authored books include So You Think You Know about Britain and Fair Play, both in 2011; in 2012 The No-nonsense Guide to Equality, The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure and The Population of the UK; Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times, The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion in 2013; All That Is Solid in 2014; Injustice: Why social inequalities persist in 2015; and A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier in 2016.
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