{"id":14620,"date":"2009-11-06T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:56:21","slug":"human-colonization-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/06\/human-colonization-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Colonization of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much of the earth can humans now access?\u00a0 Some images developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/small-world\/1\" target=\"_blank\">the New Scientist<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/chartporn.org\/2009\/10\/20\/human-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\">ChartPorn<\/a>) give us some great visuals showing just how thoroughly we&#8217;ve colonized the (non-ocean) planet.<\/p>\n<p>A map of all roads:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14622\" title=\"roads\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/roads.jpg\" alt=\"roads\" width=\"525\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A map of all railroads:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14623\" title=\"railways\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/railways.jpg\" alt=\"railways\" width=\"535\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A map of all navigable rivers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14624\" title=\"major_rivers\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/major_rivers.jpg\" alt=\"major_rivers\" width=\"538\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Considering all of these modes of transportation and the type of terrain, the New Scientist calculated how long it would take, from everywhere on the planet, to get to a city of 50,000 people or more:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14621\" title=\"mg20227041_500-1_1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/mg20227041_500-1_1000.jpg\" alt=\"mg20227041_500-1_1000\" width=\"550\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/mg20227041_500-1_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/mg20227041_500-1_1000-500x246.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They estimate that less than 10% of the world is more than two days from the nearest city. The most remote place, they calculate, is the Tibetan plateau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of the earth can humans now access?\u00a0 Some images developed by the New Scientist (via ChartPorn) give us some great visuals showing just how thoroughly we&#8217;ve colonized the (non-ocean) planet. A map of all roads: A map of all railroads: A map of all navigable rivers: Considering all of these modes of transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1826,307],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geographymaps","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14629,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}