Severus_Snape@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 month agoRevealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a daywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down12
arrow-up1100arrow-down1external-linkRevealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a daywww.theguardian.comSeverus_Snape@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squareGoudewup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoI have never in my life seen 600 football pitches. And I find it hard to visualize what that would look like. Surely if we’re going to draw a comparison there is something more sensible to use?
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThat’s why in Germany, we also use Saarland (2570km²) as a reference size, but that is a bit too much here /s (the suggestion, we actually do use Saarland all the time)
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe point is that ‘it is a lot of the thing that you are familiar with’ to drive fhe point home, not to be a precise measurement. It isn’t like knowing the literal area mean anything without knowing it’s proportion of fhe total. Even a percentage may not convey the real impact. I’m saying alternate measurements are an attempt at conveying scale.
I have never in my life seen 600 football pitches. And I find it hard to visualize what that would look like. Surely if we’re going to draw a comparison there is something more sensible to use?
That’s why in Germany, we also use Saarland (2570km²) as a reference size, but that is a bit too much here
/s (the suggestion, we actually do use Saarland all the time)
The point is that ‘it is a lot of the thing that you are familiar with’ to drive fhe point home, not to be a precise measurement.
It isn’t like knowing the literal area mean anything without knowing it’s proportion of fhe total. Even a percentage may not convey the real impact.
I’m saying alternate measurements are an attempt at conveying scale.