Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
丹尼·道灵: 地图能让我们认识到真正的自己(不仅仅告诉我们在哪)
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.
were "moona, moona,"
“月儿,月儿”
having a particular fantasy
我的母亲有个美好的憧憬,
black and white TV screen.
thought of our planet as spherical.
these images in the 1960s,
初遇这些照片,
at an incredible rate.
翻天覆地的变化。
of human geography,
many people are drawn larger,
like the Sahara and the Himalayas,
这些人烟稀少的地方,
have been shrunk away.
is given an equal amount of space.
submarine cables and trade routes.
海底电缆以及各贸易航线。
that goes from the Chinese port of Dalian
起始于中国大连港,
and round to Rotterdam.
最终绕到了荷兰的鹿特丹港。
largest ship just a year ago,
so many containers of goods
they would have been 100 kilometers long.
将会有100千米长。
we are now moving around the world,
for a very long time,
并不生活在城市中。
one of the world's first cities.
世界上最早的城市之一。
of others' houses to get to their home.
才能回到自己的家中。
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
where we think we arrived
every few months,
that a particular date was wrong.
可能被指出有误。
at an incredible speed.
不断地了解自己。
长的也不过九十年。
growth in the world.
from the moon of our planet,
从月球传来的地球图像
was growing at two percent a year.
at two percent a year
"the population bomb" in 1968.
at the end of the graph,
the '90s, the noughties,
下降幅度更快了,
10, or 11 billion people
100亿或是110亿
你所看到的是混乱
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,
people are from each area.
where to go to get away from everybody,
去哪里可以远离人群,
we are coming off the land globally.
人们都远离农村
across the continent.
where the water falls on our planet.
各地的降水量情况。
Africa, Asia, and Europe,
a large number of people living there
there is a great deal of rainfall as well.
the map be shaped by people,
moving around the planet,
to have a heartbeat.
的粮食种植分布情况。
we grow our food in the world.
米饭、玉米、谷物的种植区。
most for rice and maize and corn.
be enough food, but we know,
但是我们清楚,
and fed less of the crops to animals,
少给牲畜喂点庄稼,
as one group of people.
of the world before.
around the planet
of what the Earth looks like at night.
that most of you will be used to,
a map of where people live.
人们的居住地。
is where people live.
人们居住的地方。
of people on this map.
where people are,
the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo,
of the United States,
do not have access to that much energy,
并没有那么多能源,
shining the light up into the sky.
animated over time,
随着时间动态展示,
has actually become darker,
on a quarter less electricity
the nuclear power stations off.
at an incredible rate.
in their first year of life in the world
going to university in the world
after good news story
better in the planet,
put it brilliantly,
of incremental, imperceptible changes
难以察觉的改变,
and which render our era
并成为时代的象征,
nature of gradual transformation,
the population slowing down.
becoming more connected.
improvements in understanding.
how we are learning to begin
in proportion to those people.
city in the world in China,
(英国西南城市)
an urbanizing world,
一个城市化的世界,
to be frightened about,
to fear each other as much as we do,
that we are now living in a new world.
正生活在一个崭新的世界。
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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