Altered Maps X: Ten Time's a Altered Map

[Civ'ed]

in this case, the map probably refers to Jewish as a culture (Arabs are also listed, not Muslims.) Either way, nowadays it'd almost be all red.

 

[Winner]

It's not perfect, that's a given, but "absurd"?

It's far better than every city following its own time, or the whole world following one time.

The absurd thing about it is that many countries seem to totally miss the point of being in the right time zone.

Case in point, Argentina.

i think they would dislike the fact that the Arabs pretty much own all the land in Jerusalem.

Not just Jeruslaem, the map includes the whole "district", which even today is majority Arab as far as land ownership is concerned.

 

[nivi]

Not just Jeruslaem, the map includes the whole "district", which even today is majority Arab as far as land ownership is concerned.

Here's an updated map showing actual de facto land ownership.

Spoiler :

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

 

[Winner]

Shows how people are moving to places where they shouldn't.

 

[ArneHD]

Shows how people are moving to places where they shouldn't.

I'm fairly certain that map is just an average of where people live, so it demonstrates that more people live in west relative to the east as time goes on.

 

[Dachs]

I'm fairly certain that map is just an average of where people live, so it demonstrates that more people live in west relative to the east as time goes on.

Winner subscribes to the argument that there is no water in the American West and that everybody on the wrong side of the Rockies should go die in a fire. And probably everybody on the Great American Steppe, too, which is probably overfarmed or some similar diamondesque garbage.

 

[Winner]

Winner subscribes to the argument that there is no water in the American West and that everybody on the wrong side of the Rockies should go die in a fire. And probably everybody on the Great American Steppe, too, which is probably overfarmed or some similar diamondesque garbage.

We really need a smiley for an obvious strawman

Increasing population in areas which are the least suitable for agriculture and indeed human inhabitation is stupid, and you don't need Diamond to explain it to you. Though judging from this comment, maybe you do.

Population growth in yellow/orange areas is madness.

In the US, it's rather clear which areas are more suitable for human inhabitation:

 

[Dachs]

Yeah, we should all live in Amazonia!...and we should only stick nuclear reactors in Niger and Canada, China should have all of the tank sabot shell production facilities in the world, and we should sprinkle the whole world except for Seattle with solar panels.

 

[Winner]

Yeah, we should all live in Amazonia!...and we should only stick nuclear reactors in Niger and Canada, China should have all of the tank sabot shell production facilities in the world, and we should sprinkle the whole world except for Seattle with solar panels.

Another strawman? It would really help if you argued against something I do say as opposed to things I don't

 

[Mathalamus]

yellow areas are semi arid. its not that bad. and even the desert can support life, and its rather important in some places.

 

[Winner]

yellow areas are semi arid. its not that bad. and even the desert can support life, and its rather important in some places.

It's not that no people can live there. It's that the 'carrying capacity' of these regions, the number of people who can live there plus the things they require to live comfortably, is much lower.

In the US, people are moving en masse to areas where the 'carrying capacity' has already been grossly exceeded.

 

[Mathalamus]

well yeah, but the united states has an immense transportation network. isn't it plausible that they can ship food and water and whatnot to exceed the carrying capacity? im sure the amount of farms and stuff around Calgary cant feed a million people.

 

[Winner]

well yeah, but the united states has an immense transportation network. isn't it plausible that they can ship food and water and whatnot to exceed the carrying capacity? im sure the amount of farms and stuff around Calgary cant feed a million people.

It's not about not being able to feed them. Theoretically, you could build a city in Antarctica or in the middle of Sahara and keep it supplied with everything from elsewhere. The point is it wouldn't make sense to do it.

It's not that much different in some parts of the US. Take Phoenix, Arizona - the city is growing like crazy, despite being literally in the middle of a desert. A monument to human stupidity.

(Here's the Colorado River by the time it reaches Mexico:

Spoiler :

)

 

[EnglishCrusader]

Those clouds look pretty juicy.

 

[Civ'ed]

"wait, where's the river?"
"I dunno sir, lost it along the way!"

 

[Mathalamus]

It's not about not being able to feed them. Theoretically, you could build a city in Antarctica or in the middle of Sahara and keep it supplied with everything from elsewhere. The point is it wouldn't make sense to do it.

It's not that much different in some parts of the US. Take Phoenix, Arizona - the city is growing like crazy, despite being literally in the middle of a desert. A monument to human stupidity.

(Here's the Colorado River by the time it reaches Mexico:

Spoiler :

)

that small ditch is the river? interesting... anyway...i have to agree with you. it does make little economic sense to have a city where the land around it clearly cant support it. but the city is there, and that means there had to be something near it for the city to survive. it was founded in 1881.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

Maybe they just ran out of tiles to go for so they decided to put another city in?

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

The world map from 1983: Doomsday:

 

[choxorn]

Maybe they just ran out of tiles to go for so they decided to put another city in?

Exactly! If we didn't build cities there, then the Mexicans would, and then their knowledge of everything would let them know that Oil is there, even though we haven't researched our way to the end of the Middle Ages yet.