The next UN Secretary-General will inherit a Security Council paralysed by veto, agencies hollowed by earmarked funding, and relevance being quietly absorbed by regional blocs that do more to deliver.
Who wants to captain a sinking ship...?
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Nothing explains geopolitics better than a simple map! 🗺️
Global distribution of forest types, showing tropical, boreal, temperate, and subtropical forests and their relative shares of total forest cover worldwide.
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-four-major-ty...
Love the simplicity on this map!
“Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.”
Source: Joseph Davies (LinkedIn)
River basins of Africa
Source: tterence (bsky)
Do you agree?
Source: snap.co (Voronoi)
posts.voronoiapp.com/demographics/Recruiters-...
US’ Religious Mix
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/society/Visualizing-the-...
Brewing Dominance
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/food-beverage/Global-Cof...
Record foreign-born population in 2024
Source: Visual Capitalist
posts.voronoiapp.com//Foreign-Born-Population...
Awesome visual by @datapulse.en and again a stark contrast between West and East Germany.
Africa's solar potential...
Source: EU Institute for Security Studies
Interesting comparison of airline incidents across the world’s two major aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus.
Source: Visual Capitalist
posts.voronoiapp.com/other/Airline-Incidents-...
China’s expanding naval influence across the Indian Ocean
Source: GeoStrata
Simplistic but awesome early map of the World 🗺️
Source: Heinrich Bünting (HT Ian Bremmer)
Southern Lebanon has taken a pummelling in the first half of April.
Source: @acleddata
Tehran has it hardwired into them that surrender to the US is worse than outright defeat
Trump's threats have not worked and will again bear no fruit again, the Iranian negotiators just declined to travel to Islamabad
Trump has still failed to realise this and has no good options remaining
#Africa’s land coverage
José Luengo-Cabrera
China's reach is now considerable...
Source: Foreign Policy
https://t.co/1MlFry8tNo
Breakdown of government spending...
@OurWorldInData
Oil, Gas, and a Splash of Hydro!
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
Left or right?
Source: StatistaCharts (Voronoi)
posts.voronoiapp.com/other/Which-Side-Of-The-...
The Paper Divide 🗺️ 📄
17,000 islands with 55% of its population living on one of them…
Source: MapsCommunity
www.voronoiapp.com/maps/Top-10-Most-Populou...
Is the space race returning from a 30-year break?
Sources: @Statista
A lot of Asian countries significantly impacted...
Source: @Statista
Dated, but great map of the hydrocarbon infrastructure in the Middle East...
The DRC sits on a vast amount of mineral wealth...
Source: Jose Luengo-Cabrera
Interesting 🤔
Source: Visual Capitalist
posts.voronoiapp.com/economy/-Just-Five-Count...
86% of all above-ground gold was extracted in the last 200 years.
Source: Visual Capitalist
elements.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
There are more data centres in the US than the next ten countries combined...
Source: Visual Capitalist
https://t.co/Y5nUMM1SfT