They Just Redrew the World Map — And the US Was the Only Country to Say No | Astrology Ride of the Day

I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath · Sep 9, 2026 · 14m

A real-time story broke while we were recording this. The UN just voted to replace the 500-year-old Mercator map — the one that makes Africa look roughly the same size as Greenland when it's actually 14 times bigger — with a more accurate projection. The vote was 164 to 1. The one dissenting vote was the United States, calling it "radical" and tying it to a "larger ideological project." We get into why that map distortion mattered in the first place, how it shaped centuries of perception about which parts of the world are "important," and what it says that redrawing borders and maps keeps…