The Peters Projection

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White House Press Secretary C.J. Gregg listens to a presentation from the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality. They would like to convince the President to adopt policies that requires teaching geography in schools using the Peters Projection instead of the conventional map, the Mercator Map. They claim that the Mercator Map distorts the size of nations and continents to favor Western societies, which creates misguided social perspectives about nations, particularly developing ones, that extend far beyond geography.
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