UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition

Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram

> "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read.

I dunno, bro, "more accurate map" seems less "ideological" than "refuse to contemplate anything that could be perceived by the most fragile people alive as diminishing the US."

Sometimes it gets harder and harder to understand why certain things trigger these children.

When I look at a map - political or geographic - my primary observation is the shapes of the nations or landforms. Not the size.

> Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.

It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countries abstaining, and no other right-wing nationalist regime siding with the US.