Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From B. D. Colen > This is an intriguing and powerful example of how we all tend to think that OUR world/nation, etc. is THE world...:-). <snip> > The Bailey photo may have made a splash on your side of the pond, but I don't know that it focused the world on environmental issues. - ---------------------------------- B.D. Your side of the pond has maybe 300 million people, plus another 100 million south of Panama. My side of the pond has several billion people. This includes Africa, Russia, India and China, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg. We have you surrounded. I don't disagree with you. I'm just pointing out that a splash on this side of the pond would be a giant tidal wave on your side. :-) However, your minority opinions are noted. The dominance of the English speaking portion of the Internet can give a false perception of THE world if we're not careful. After all there are many photo lists in German Spanish Japanese that are also debating this topic, and some of their members are on this list too. We can see you but you can't see us, sort of thing. You are right though, we all suffer from heliocentric viewpoints. :-) Alan