The World as 100 People
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The Overview effect is a cognitive shift. You look down at the earth and realise that everyone who ever lived and died, every person that has ever been born was within this tiny blue speck in space. Divisions such as race, gender, country and language fall away.
The design is round because the world is round, and I wanted to make it a defined and pleasing shape. The colours are chosen from flags. It uses natural frequencies instead of percentages. This is a deliberate choice so that it can be as accessible to as many people as possible.
This graphic was tweeted by Astronaut Chris Hadfield, and reprinted in many publications.
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