Which is larger? Yours, or mine? Australia or the United States of America, that is. With the bushfires in Australia out of control incinerating large swathes of the country a map was produced to visually depict how widespread the fires are. For emphasis the map was overlaid on top of America to give people an idea of the scope of the problem Australia is dealing with. Americans responded with disbelief that Australia was just as large as the USA. People were also in shock over how large an area, measured by size of US states, are currently burning. Responses on social media show how shocked and dumbfounded people were learning this.
Here is the image under discussion.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday January 09 2020, @02:11AM
PJW showed a rather alarming satellite view (too lazy to go find a static image but I had this link to hand)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tn8f0uaB4 [youtube.com]
Note the correspondence:
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/profiles/eucalypt-forest [agriculture.gov.au]
Ever seen this stuff burn? it's nature's accelerant.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.