Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
داني دورلينغ: الخرائط التي تظهر لنا من نحن (وليس أين نحيا فقط)
Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world. Full bio
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have seen the planet depicted before.
المصورة من قبل.
that you're very familiar with.
before we saw this image.
مشاهدتنا لهذه الصورة.
were "moona, moona,"
بها كانت "مونا، مونا،"
having a particular fantasy
black and white TV screen.
thought of our planet as spherical.
these images in the 1960s,
مرة في الستينيات،
at an incredible rate.
of human geography,
many people are drawn larger,
أكبر من السكان بحجم أكبر.
like the Sahara and the Himalayas,
have been shrunk away.
قُلصت للغاية.
is given an equal amount of space.
مساحة متساوية.
submarine cables and trade routes.
والطرق التجارية.
that goes from the Chinese port of Dalian
and round to Rotterdam.
largest ship just a year ago,
مضى فحسب،
so many containers of goods
من حاويات البضائع
they would have been 100 kilometers long.
لكانت ستكون بطول 100 كيلومتر.
we are now moving around the world,
نقوم بشحنها الآن حول العالم،
for a very long time,
طويلة من الزمن.
one of the world's first cities.
المدن في العالم
of others' houses to get to their home.
المنازل الأخرى للوصول إلى منازلهم.
at the map of the city,
incredibly quickly most recently.
seven, or eight generations
أو الثمانية الماضية
that we are a species.
is the map of world population,
هي خريطة لتعداد سكان العالم،
showing how we spread out of Africa
تظهر كيفية انتشارنا خارج أفريقيا
where we think we arrived
أين نعتقد أننا وصلنا
every few months,
كل عدة أشهر،
that a particular date was wrong.
معيناً كان خاطئاً.
at an incredible speed.
growth in the world.
from the moon of our planet,
هذه الصور المأخوذة لقمر كوكبنا.
was growing at two percent a year.
يزداد بنسبة 2% سنوياً.
at two percent a year
"the population bomb" in 1968.
في العام 1968.
at the end of the graph,
الرسم البياني،
the '90s, the noughties,
10, or 11 billion people
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,
لتجعل الأماكن أكبر،
people are from each area.
where to go to get away from everybody,
لتبتعد عن الجميع،
we are coming off the land globally.
across the continent.
where the water falls on our planet.
الأمطار على كوكبنا.
Africa, Asia, and Europe,
أفريقيا وآسيا وأوروبا،
a large number of people living there
من البشر يحيون هناك
there is a great deal of rainfall as well.
تهطل فيها الأمطار بغزارة أيضاً.
the map be shaped by people,
moving around the planet,
تنتقل عبر الكوكب،
to have a heartbeat.
we grow our food in the world.
فيها غذاءنا في العالم.
most for rice and maize and corn.
في الأرز والذرة والقمح.
be enough food, but we know,
لكننا نعلم،
and fed less of the crops to animals,
الحيوانات محاصيل أقل،
as one group of people.
واحدة من البشر.
of the world before.
around the planet
التي تدور حول الأرض
of what the Earth looks like at night.
عليها الأرض ليلاً.
that most of you will be used to,
الذي اعتاده معظمكم،
a map of where people live.
التي يحيا عليها البشر.
is where people live.
يحيا البشر.
of people on this map.
على هذه الخريطة.
where people are,
المكان الذي يحيا فيه البشر،
the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo,
of the United States,
للولايات المتحدة
من رسم صورة كهذه.
do not have access to that much energy,
الوصول للطاقة المتاحة فيها،
shining the light up into the sky.
بلا جدوى.
animated over time,
هذه الخريطة المتحركة مع الزمن،
has actually become darker,
عتمة مع الزمن،
on a quarter less electricity
أقل من ربع الكهرباء
the nuclear power stations off.
at an incredible rate.
in their first year of life in the world
في عامهم الأول في العالم
going to university in the world
يرتادون الجامعات في العالم
after good news story
better in the planet,
put it brilliantly,
قالتها بوضوح،
of incremental, imperceptible changes
المحسوسة
and which render our era
nature of gradual transformation,
غير التامة للتحول التدريجي،
the population slowing down.
النمو السكاني.
becoming more connected.
متصلاً على نحو أكبر.
improvements in understanding.
how we are learning to begin
in proportion to those people.
بالتناسب مع هؤلاء البشر
city in the world in China,
العالم هي الصين،
an urbanizing world,
to be frightened about,
to fear each other as much as we do,
الآخرين،
that we are now living in a new world.
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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