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I find that fascinating.
That circle is also mostly water.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)And when the glaciers are all melted...
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)The 300 year anomaly of western domination is coming to a close and the center is going back to where it belongs.
demwing
(16,916 posts)"Belong" anywhere?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Nor did I say it did. I said the 300 year domination of the world by the west was coming to an end, and that the (geopolitical and economic) center of world civilization is reverting back to where it naturally belongs, which is in that circle where most of the people of the world live.
demwing
(16,916 posts)Shouldn't the seat of power of a civilization rest in the center of its philosophical heart, not its most populated geographic area?
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)it will be chaotic until enough young males are killed in battle, and then we start over..
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)All I'm saying is that europe and america, who have dominated the world economically, culturally and militarily for the last 300 years, are not going to continue to do that. The economic power is clearly centering in China and east asia, and our efforts to continue to dominate via military hegemony are doomed to failure.
randome
(34,845 posts)The center of power is wherever human beings make it.
'First come, first serve' does not apply.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Hindustani and Mandarin en masse, then I'll believe the center has shifted.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Since when was Eastern Asia the center of the world?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Both India and China were generally more culturally and scientifically and economically advanced for most of human history, and China in particular was more politically advanced and stabile for the entire period up to the mid 1700s. The relatively brief greco-roman era was contemporaneous with a similar level of cultural achievement in both China and India, neither of them bothered to collapse as western culture did from 500 - 1500, both of them were unable to compete with the european ascendancy of the late 17th - 20th centuries.
Cirque du So-What
(25,980 posts)of territory that is sparsely populated: Gobi desert, Siberia, Himalayan plateau, jungle, etc. Take away those low-density areas and it's even more amazing.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)(NB: Antarctica is the one area not to scale - it should disappear, since it has 0 permanent population, but they've left it in)
More maps like that here: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Animation of area to population: http://www.worldmapper.org/animations/wm01to02.html