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There is a weird narrative where people pretend like there's some conspiracy to make countries near the equator appear smaller on maps.
The reality is the Mercator projection was made for navigation purposes. The world is round and there is no projection of a globe on a 2D surface that will ever be accurate. No one is trying to kick people down by choosing one projection over the other because none of them are going to be accurate. All maps are made with the general assumption that people understand the world is actually round and they should account for that. This kind of debate edges on flat earth kinds of silliness where people are being deliberately ignorant about how maps work in favour of dumb conspiracy theories.
Sure it's probably not worth opposing, but it's also a bunch of silliness that isn't worth proposing either. It is a sign the UN is disconnected from the actual problems of the world when they're worried about fucking map projections. Is it going to be international law that we can't use the Mercator maps for navigation, which is what they're designed for? Does the UN even understand that for some people a map isn't just a decoration to be put on a wall, but something that has a purpose?
It doesn't matter if there was a "conspiracy". It's inaccurate and therefore stupid to maintain.
The UN doing this doesn't mean they're not focusing much more intensely on other issues and anyone claiming that is a fucking moron.
The US being the only one opposing this makes the US the only one pushing some dumbass conspiracy theory.