A global map of soil quality. What stands out?
@mnolangray All of the high quality soil in the U.S. Argentina and Ukraine
@mnolangray Imagine how bad you have to fuck up policy wise to make Ukraine starve (under the Holodomor).
@mnolangray That the great civilizations weren't built on the green areas.
@mnolangray That whoever came up with the coloring scheme should be fired
@mnolangray AMERICA THE GOATED
@mnolangray the graph is hard to read, that's what sticks out to me
@mnolangray The countries that grow all the food have good soil
@mnolangray How much of the green was unusable until the last couple hundred years
@mnolangray The Holodomor was the clearest sign ever that Communism leads to the mass starvation and death of millions.
what stands out is that its soil quality gives CA yet another mandate to be a US leader--and indeed world leader--in plopping thousands of high-, mid-, and low-rise apartment buildings everywhere. it's a geotechnical engineer's paradise. no need for exotic, expensive building foundations like deep piles that other regions require. It has no excuse to not be the world's breadbasket and innovation hub...all driven by what should be its housing abundance on pristine, stable soils.
@mnolangray Ukraine and the Midwest are the bread baskets of the world.
@mnolangray No country in human history has been more resource blessed than these united states of america
@mnolangray That the United States has the mandate of heaven.
@mnolangray 1. California a perfect Eden amid the wastes 2. Troad one of the most fertile regions in the Aegean 3. North Africa still a bread basket, Egypt less so 4. Latium and Etruria
@mnolangray How Ukraine is largely green, and how relatively rare green is on the map.
@mnolangray The Mongolian people have been herding animals across their land for at least 5,000 years. No farming at all, and yet the soil of Mongolia is still nonexistent?! In the spring much of Mongolia is covered by grass, apparently growing on almost no soil.
@mnolangray My paternal ancestors immigrated to the Midwest from Ukraine - it reminded them of home.
@mnolangray 1. Ukraine stands out. 2. Uruguay stands out. 3. Canada’s worse than I’d have guessed. 4. Morocco is better than I’d have guessed.
@mnolangray 1. Midwest is best 2. Ukraine leads Europe 3. South America’s best not where people think it is 4. Lack of green in Africa and Asia j
@mnolangray Very few uninhabited areas were measured. Ease of measurement seems to be playing a major role in gathering the data so the specifics of soil quality might also be skewed.
@mnolangray I wish they hadn’t picked the red for that type of soil. It gives the impression it’s “bad” soil when in reality it’s “too good” of a soil. Literally all the red areas are the most densely forested places in the world. Yes, subpar for crops, but…visual choices are important.
@mnolangray What stands out to me is that the legend is kinda confusing.
@mnolangray The color scale being completely unintuitive and unreadable is what stands out
@mnolangray Some of the best soil is located in S. Ontario. Sadly, governments here are busy paving it all over with cookie cutter housing developments and overpriced McMansions, not to mention the highway infrastructure to connect it all.
@mnolangray There's a book about this.
