{"id":9638,"date":"2009-06-16T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:02:08","slug":"the-effervesence-of-industrialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/16\/the-effervesence-of-industrialization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effervesence Of Industrialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image, found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~ina\/infographics\/lights_earth.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Networks<\/a>, depicts the globe at night.\u00a0 The areas bathed in electricity reveal &#8220;the global spread of industrialization, as evidenced by the lights of human civilization&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9639\" title=\"lights_earth\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/lights_earth.jpg\" alt=\"lights_earth\" width=\"548\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/lights_earth.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/lights_earth-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s interesting to compare this image with a world population map (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobaleducationproject.org\/earth\/human-conditions.php\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9757\" title=\"g-gpw-population-map\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/g-gpw-population-map.gif\" alt=\"g-gpw-population-map\" width=\"650\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/g-gpw-population-map.gif 650w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/g-gpw-population-map-300x150.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first the two maps seem to overlap pretty nicely, but if you look closely there are plenty of interesting discrepancies, especially in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Toban B. for the link that got me to the graphic that inspired this post.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW (Apr. &#8217;10)!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>In the comments, Brendon linked to\u00a0this great image of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">the Korean peninsula at night<\/a>\u00a0that reveals an amazing difference between North and South Korea:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/16\/the-effervesence-of-industrialization\/korean_peninsula_at_night\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22829\" title=\"Korean_peninsula_at_night\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/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>This image, found at International Networks, depicts the globe at night.\u00a0 The areas bathed in electricity reveal &#8220;the global spread of industrialization, as evidenced by the lights of human civilization&#8221;: I think it&#8217;s interesting to compare this image with a world population map (link): At first the two maps seem to overlap pretty nicely, but [&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":[135,36,260,4381,1788],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-north-korea","tag-nation-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9756,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}