The world if Africa didn't exist

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• Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  would be greener on the continents with ice reaching further down because without africa there would be no humans and with no humans there would be no greenhouse emissions and global temperatures would be notably cooler.

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  • alehc@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are looking at the wrong continent to disappear for the effect to be noticeable

    statista.com/…/world-carbon-dioxide-emissions-by-…

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    • sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the point was that humans come from Africa (as in, as a species).

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• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Antactica where?

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This map only contains the canon countries, not your OCs (original countries)

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    • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Map before James Cook DLC

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    c/mapswithoutevenhalfofaustralia

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    • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And Japan! Or the Korean peninsula! Or most of Alaska!

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• Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fun fact: The ecosystems of the Amazon Basin rely on around 27.7 million tons of Saharan Dust each year to replace the phosphorus that is washed away by the rains. Without this constant input of nutrients the local soils would have been stripped of needed nutrients and would be unable to support the plants that currently thrive there.

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust
  • nasa.gov/…/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-sahara…

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  • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also true for the Indian Monsoon.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Amazon rainforest survived the African Humid Period though, so what’s up with that?

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    • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species and even savannahs in parts of the region!

      earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567

      With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.

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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I refuse to live in a world with no rhythm

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sea level would be considerably lower, as it would suddenly have a big ass Africa-sized hole to fill.

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  • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless the land didn’t simply disappear but redistributed, raising the ocean floor throughout the Atlantic.

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  • DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The ultimate solution to sea level rise due to climate change

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Better be careful with this. Gonna give conservatives boners.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Post this to “Maps that are missing New Zealand”

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• sag@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you are confuse.

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• WILSOOON@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.”

  blub

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Lion King/little mermaid crossover nobody’s been asking for

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• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Im cutious how much lower the ocean’s water level would be t fill in for the missing land because thats a lot of cubic volume and what impact that might have on further revealing existing land due to the lower water levels

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• MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• Fleur__@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When the world needed him most, he vanished

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It would be far different if the land mass of Africa had never existed. The whole tectonic movement would have resulted in different arrangements several supercontinents ago, with their own effects on climate and life itself.

  But if Africa just blipped off one day, maybe. Then you have to explore what a sudden loss of land would do to the ocean waters rushing in, the change in Earth rotation due to its mass being shifted, lots of other things.

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• TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  🎶 It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 🎶

  🎵 There’s nothin’ that a hundred men or more could ever do 🎵

  🎶 I bless the rains in South America 🎶

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• TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this would also affect currents so much

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you showed a bunch of people this map, almost no one would even notice. Only the guy who listens to Die Antwoord would be sad.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In our current global political and racial environment … Africa exists?

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• Sir_packsalot2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nazis didn’t exist

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