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I mean it's close enough, yeah. 70% of land is there[0] and close to 90% of the people[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere#/media/File:No

• bruce511 3y ago
  well, good to know. 30% of the land, 10% of the people... Of course 70%ish of the planet is water, so by the same logic, "Earth is completely covered by water worldwide" ?
  • kimjune01 3y ago
    That depends on if you have an ethno-centric or a hydro-centric view of the world.
    • aziaziazi 3y ago
      Anthro / Geo. Hydro view would be “97% of water is saline” and Ethno “4 religions account for over 77% of the world's population” Please correct me if I’m wrong.
      • dryrun 3y ago
        Ethnic is not relative to religion per se, but language and traditions.
        • aziaziazi 3y ago
          For what I find on search engines, Ethno is relative to race, people, culture. that includes language, traditions and religions.
  • otikik 3y ago
    Well we call it "The Blue Marble", so we kind of already do that a little bit.
  • pixl97 3y ago
    It's unfortunate they don't make a GLOBAL sea surface temperature anomaly map... oh, they do https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/ https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/
  • uoaei 3y ago
    There's a reason we call it "the blue marble". Effects spread wide enough can be said to be characteristic of the Earth's dynamics without needing to cover 100.000% of the surface. In the case of the article, if it affects enough of the population, we can generalize without missing the point.
  • bratbag 3y ago
    If it was an article written for fish, I'm sure it would matter
  • tqi 3y ago
    What is the threshold for "world-wide" to apply?