Probably 100% cow pastures.
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
8oow3291d@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
How exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I googled it: Image
Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.
Anything between 180° to 0 (AKA 360°) is WEST.
Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.
I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 hours ago
Unless you stand perfectly at the south pr perfectly at the north point of either pole, there will always be an east and a west.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk 3 hours ago
Yes - but you can choose any point to stand on. So all arbitrary separations in to “East” and “West” are equally valid.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 hours ago
We shall have the compass decide, good sir! We are but mere mortals!
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
Same as now. European influence.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
you’re thinking geographic west and east. what other definitions exist for west and east?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Under the US’s political sphere of influence vs China’s?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
whose map is this? does the chinese map use different words?
Rothe@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Personally I am not able to get excited about the prospect, with the knowledge that it happens on the back of millions of species going extinct all over the globe.