Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
丹尼·道靈: 數據繪製的世界地圖(不僅只是告訴我們身在何處)
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.
我就已經出生了。
were "moona, moona,"
就是「月兒,月兒」,
having a particular fantasy
在閃爍的黑白電視螢幕上,
black and white TV screen.
thought of our planet as spherical.
地球是球體狀的。
these images in the 1960s,
第一次看到這些照片時,
at an incredible rate.
of human geography,
沃爾多‧托布勒的製圖師,
各自進行了縮放:
many people are drawn larger,
面積會放得比較大;
like the Sahara and the Himalayas,
這些人煙稀少的地方,
have been shrunk away.
is given an equal amount of space.
都被賦予等量的空間。
submarine cables and trade routes.
that goes from the Chinese port of Dalian
從中國大連港出發
最終繞到了荷蘭的鹿特丹港。
and round to Rotterdam.
largest ship just a year ago,
so many containers of goods
they would have been 100 kilometers long.
綿延不絕長達100公里。
we are now moving around the world,
for a very long time,
有很長的一段時間了,
並沒有生活在城市中。
one of the world's first cities.
世界上最早的城市之一。
在這個城市的鼎盛時期,
of others' houses to get to their home.
才能回到自己的家中。
at the map of the city,
修正而改變。
incredibly quickly most recently.
世界卻以飛速在轉變。
seven, or eight generations
that we are a species.
is the map of world population,
是一張世界人口地圖。
showing how we spread out of Africa
從非洲遷徙到全球的路徑,
where we think we arrived
every few months,
重新繪製這張地圖,
that a particular date was wrong.
地圖上某個特定日期有誤。
at an incredible speed.
不斷地了解我們自己。
長的也不過90年。
growth in the world.
from the moon of our planet,
從月球傳來的地球圖像,
was growing at two percent a year.
2%的增長率快速攀升。
at two percent a year
"the population bomb" in 1968.
現象會來臨。
at the end of the graph,
the '90s, the noughties,
下降幅度更快了──
10, or 11 billion people
100億或是110億
你所看到的是混亂,
in 1918 from influenza.
we tend to concentrate on.
on the terrible events in the news.
駭人聽聞的新聞事件,
on the gradual change
get away from people.
changed again to make area large,
區域面積越大。
people are from each area.
where to go to get away from everybody,
哪裏可以遠離人群,
都在不斷地擴大,
we are coming off the land globally.
人們不斷地離開這些地區。
across the continent.
整個大陸向西遷移。
where the water falls on our planet.
全球各地的降雨量。
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.
所展現的各種樣貌。
we grow our food in the world.
糧食種植的分布情況。
most for rice and maize and corn.
米飯、玉米、穀物的種植區。
be enough food, but we know,
但是我們清楚,
and fed less of the crops to animals,
少給牲畜餵食穀物,
as one group of people.
單一生命共同體。
of the world before.
around the planet
of what the Earth looks like at night.
地球的夜間圖像。
來看那張地圖,
that most of you will be used to,
a map of where people live.
人們的居住地。
is where people live.
就是人們居住的地方。
of people on this map.
每個地方的人口密度相等。
where people are,
不再是人們的所在地,
the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo,
of the United States,
才得以繪製出這樣的圖像。
do not have access to that much energy,
並沒有那麽多能源,
shining the light up into the sky.
animated over time,
動態時間方式來展示,
has actually become darker,
on a quarter less electricity
the nuclear power stations off.
電力供應。
at an incredible rate.
in their first year of life in the world
是以驚人的速度在增長著。
going to university in the world
after good news story
better in the planet,
put it brilliantly,
描述頗為精確,
of incremental, imperceptible changes
難以察覺的改變,
and which render our era
nature of gradual transformation,
漸進式改變,
察覺到世代間改變、進步的差異。」
the population slowing down.
人口增長已經趨緩。
becoming more connected.
世界的連結日益緊密。
improvements in understanding.
相互諒解有多大的進展。
how we are learning to begin
我們已經開始學習
74億人口比例的地圖。
in proportion to those people.
city in the world in China,
an urbanizing world,
一個城市化的世界,
to be frightened about,
to fear each other as much as we do,
that we are now living in a new world.
生活在一個嶄新的世界。
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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