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Mexico is not "South American." Most of it isn't even "Central American." The person who wrote this needs some geography lessons.
This article also makes this sound like a brand new endeavor, as if this hasn't been an ongoing project for 70 years now
Dropping them in texas is alarming, though. The battle was originally to keep them contained in central america near the isthmus. If they’re in texas they can spread widely around the us south, creating yet another reason not to want to be there.
There was an outbreak in Florida in 2016, which was quickly contained. We know how to stop it. They used to be widespread across all of North America
As an anerican my faith in the government stopping this is maybe 20%.
Well, where they're dropping them is recent, as the screwworm has been steadily moving north again.
When you are not up to date on the topic, it sounds like a far-fetched dystopian alternate timeline.
I sent them a message to see if they'd update it. Just out of curiosity.
Europe's understanding of the geography outside its tiny landmass is utterly laughable.
"Tiny landmass"? Tell me you have no idea of geography without telling me you have no idea of geography.
Second smallest continent, behind even Antarctica.
It's tiny my dude.
I mean let's be honest, they shouldn't get to call themselves a continent even.
If you're talking about that mountain range, sure we can be Eurasia instead then
"Smallest Continent" is like saying "Most Giant Midget." It means nothing. That's also only if you use the 7 continent model. Which is taught in Mostly English Speaking parts of the world as well as SE Asia and China. There's two 6 continent models, the combined Eurasia Model which is taught in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkan States. Then There's the combined Americas model Taught in Greece, many Romance language countries and Latin America. Then There's The 5 Continent model which is Physiographic Regions, so physically distinct regions independent of Political boundaries and the 4 continent model which is divided by continuous land mass, so Afro-Eurasia, Combined Americas, Australia and Antarctica. The 6 model system is represented in the rings of the Olympic flag that depicts the 5 inhabited continents of the combined America Model but excludes Antarctica because Penguins are shit at Archery. TMYN
This is interesting. I didn't know there were so many different systems.
This is real 5'11" energy bud.
No, it's actually just geography.
Sorry, FTFY
Tiny little landmass filled to the brim with vainglorious people.
I'm Canadian
Rhode Island is tiny, Europe is not
Rhode Island isn't a landmass. It's a political division. Europe is large for everything but continents. But it's a moderately sized peninsula on the Eurasian continent.
Nobody is claiming it's small like Luxembourg, we're saying its small like India (yes I know its 3x the size of india)
You consider India small?
For a country it's huge. For a landmass it's small.
what make you think I have good understanding of Europe and geography?
Living there and also maps existing.