Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
Danny Dorling: Kartor som visar vilka vi är (inte bara var vi är)
Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world. Full bio
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have seen the planet depicted before.
aldrig tidigare skådat.
that you're very familiar with.
before we saw this image.
innan vi såg den här bilden.
were "moona, moona,"
"måne, måne,"
having a particular fantasy
som fantiserar
black and white TV screen.
thought of our planet as spherical.
sett vår planet som sfärisk.
these images in the 1960s,
at an incredible rate.
otroligt snabbt.
of human geography,
har sträckt ut platser
many people are drawn larger,
har förstorats,
like the Sahara and the Himalayas,
have been shrunk away.
is given an equal amount of space.
submarine cables and trade routes.
och handelsvägar.
that goes from the Chinese port of Dalian
kinesiska hamnen Dalian
and round to Rotterdam.
upp till Rotterdam.
largest ship just a year ago,
bara för något år sen,
so many containers of goods
they would have been 100 kilometers long.
konvoj hade den varit 100 kilometer lång.
we are now moving around the world,
runt världen,
for a very long time,
one of the world's first cities.
en av världens första städer.
of others' houses to get to their home.
för att nå sina egna hem.
at the map of the city,
incredibly quickly most recently.
den senaste tiden.
seven, or eight generations
sex, sju eller åtta generationerna
that we are a species.
is the map of world population,
den som visar jordens befolkning,
showing how we spread out of Africa
spred oss ut från Afrika
where we think we arrived
att vi befann oss
every few months,
var och varannan månad
that a particular date was wrong.
särskilt datum är fel.
at an incredible speed.
growth in the world.
from the moon of our planet,
från månen av vår planet,
was growing at two percent a year.
med två procent om året.
at two percent a year
med två procent om året
"the population bomb" in 1968.
"befolkningsbomben" 1968.
at the end of the graph,
the '90s, the noughties,
10, or 11 billion people
eller elva biljoner människor
kan ni se tumultet.
in 1918 from influenza.
av influensa.
we tend to concentrate on.
på dessa händelser,
on the terrible events in the news.
som vi ser på nyheterna.
on the gradual change
gradvis skeende förändring
människor det finns.
get away from people.
kan ta oss ifrån människor.
changed again to make area large,
har områden förstorats
people are from each area.
som människor befinner sig.
where to go to get away from everybody,
om du vill komma bort från alla
we are coming off the land globally.
från landet.
across the continent.
över kontinenten.
where the water falls on our planet.
faller på vår planet.
Africa, Asia, and Europe,
Afrika, Asien och Europa,
a large number of people living there
människor bor där
there is a great deal of rainfall as well.
nederbörd också.
the map be shaped by people,
efter människor,
moving around the planet,
som rör sig runt planeten,
to have a heartbeat.
har hjärtslag.
we grow our food in the world.
odlar all världens mat.
most for rice and maize and corn.
för ris, majs och vete.
be enough food, but we know,
men vi vet,
and fed less of the crops to animals,
matade djuren med alla grödorna,
mat till alla
as one group of people.
grupp av människor.
of the world before.
över världen förut
satellitbilder,
around the planet
of what the Earth looks like at night.
hur jorden ser ut om natten.
that most of you will be used to,
flesta av er är vana vid,
a map of where people live.
människor bor.
is where people live.
sträckt ut kartan igen.
of people on this map.
på den här kartan.
where people are,
människorna befinner sig,
the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo,
ljuset från Tokyo,
of the United States,
upp hela himlen,
en bild som den här.
do not have access to that much energy,
har tillgång till så mycket energi,
shining the light up into the sky.
för att lysa upp hela himmelen.
animated over time,
av kartan under en viss tid,
has actually become darker,
har blivit mörkare,
en fjärdedel mindre elektricitet
on a quarter less electricity
the nuclear power stations off.
at an incredible rate.
in their first year of life in the world
under sitt första levnadsår
på universitetet
going to university in the world
som går på universitet i världen
after good news story
nyhetsstoryn efter den andra
better in the planet,
att koncentrera oss på
put it brilliantly,
tycker jag,
of incremental, imperceptible changes
obetydliga, omärkliga förändringar
and which render our era
och som återger vårt tidevarv
från det förflutna" -
nature of gradual transformation,
naturen av gradvis förändring,
the population slowing down.
befolkningsökningen går ner.
becoming more connected.
blir mer sammankopplad.
improvements in understanding.
fantastiska framstegen i förståelse.
how we are learning to begin
hur vi lär oss att börja
sjöarna och haven.
in proportion to those people.
till de människorna.
city in the world in China,
i världen i Kina,
an urbanizing world,
som urbaniseras,
to be frightened about,
att vara rädd för,
to fear each other as much as we do,
att frukta varandra så mycket som vi gör,
that we are now living in a new world.
i en ny värld.
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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