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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

What's the global south? I'm looking at a map and it seems that the global north is the epicenter of poor air quality.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the article, they are mentioning the Northern countries of India and Bangladesh and the equatorial country of the Congo (DRC)

I expected a bit more Argentina, South Africa and Australia if we're gonna be talking about the south.

But I guess they mean the third world countries, but that headline has been repeated too much already. And someone harked back to the cold war period and discovered global south used to be a synonym for the third world. (Because the third world had a lower average latitude than the first and second world).

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

It's a socio-economic term rather than a directional term, it's similar to "developing country" and is meant to be an alternative to "third world."

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 2 points 1 year ago

And it’s absolutely fucking stupid.

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