MoAm

Where would we live,
if we were logical about it?

Earth's resources and Earth's people on one honest map. Weight what should matter — sunshine, soil, wind, forest, mild air, water — and watch a logical humanity rearrange itself. Then look at the gap.

over-ambitious hobby project · not science
the gold is people — every human on Earth, summed into hexagons scroll ↓
the loop

A mirror in three moves.

01

Set your values

Six planet-scale resources, each with a slider for how much it should matter. Plus the two honest levers: how densely people may pack, and by when your world should arrive.

02

The world reorganises

All 8.2 billion of us are poured back onto the planet in proportion to the suitability your values define — clustered like real humanity, capped by your density limit. Arithmetic, not prophecy.

03

Read the gap

One number falls out: the misplacement index — the share of humanity living somewhere your logic wouldn't put them. The gap between logical and actual is where everything human lives.

the map

Real data, drawn honestly.

Every layer is poured into the same hexagonal grid — Uber's H3, cells of roughly 100 km — under one rule, the equality principle: no region is ever drawn at finer detail than any other, even where finer data exists.

The projection is Equal Earth, which keeps every hexagon's area honest — a map about where people are must not inflate the wealthy north the way Mercator does. And the map faces you with the side of the planet where it is midnight right now, creeping west at Earth's true 15° an hour.

Population GHS-POP, 2025 — every human, summed per hex
Solar potential Global Solar Atlas — kWh/m²·day
Arable land Copernicus — share of ground under crops
Wind Global Wind Atlas — mean speed at 100 m
Tree cover Copernicus — canopy fraction
Mild climate closeness to an 8–24 °C band — our knob, flagged as such
Freshwater NASA GRACE-FO — stored water gained vs lost, 2002–2026
honest numbers

The mirror discriminates.

2.7%
of Earth's land holds half of humanity, today
86%
of us are "misplaced" under a sunshine-only logic
67%
under crops-only — the kindest verdict; we did settle near food
≈7M
people the world already resettles each year — the pace any gap is measured against

Different values produce honestly different worlds — that spread is the whole instrument. Your scenario lives entirely in the page's URL: no server, no account, no tracking, and any link you share replays your exact world.

the framing

Proudly not science.

Science makes falsifiable claims; MoAm makes none. Everything past the raw data is a choice — how much sun is worth how much soil, how tightly people may pack, what counts as mild. The data is real and credited to its source; everything built on it is a thought experiment you steer. "Optimal" only ever means where the logic you chose would put people. It's a mirror, not a manifesto — and the point was never the destination, but the size of the gap.
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standing on

Every layer, credited.

GHS-POP R2023A, epoch 2025European Commission JRCCC BY 4.0
Global Solar Atlas v2 — GHI + TEMPWorld Bank / ESMAP · SolargisCC BY 4.0
Copernicus CGLS-LC100 — crops + treesCopernicus / VITOCC BY 4.0
Global Wind Atlas v3 — 100 m windDTU Wind Energy / ESMAPCC BY 4.0
GRACE / GRACE-FO Mascon RL06.3 — water trendNASA JPL / PO.DAACpublic domain
World Population Prospects 2024UN DESACC BY 3.0 IGO
Natural Earth basemapNatural Earthpublic domain
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The mirror is open.

Weight the world. See where the logic puts us. Own the gap.

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