In March, the US was also critical when a resolution was adopted declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".

Typical USA.

The pedantic part of me wants to point out that every projection of a 3D object onto a 2D surface requires distortion

They literally say that in the article.

The distortion of his map is a result of the fact that it is impossible to accurately represent the surface of a globe on a two-dimensional chart. Whenever a map of the world is drawn, compromises need to be made.

In the present, nobody is using these maps for navigation

Took a big whiff of the copium, did you?

You cannot map a 3D surface onto a 2D plane without either distorting the 2D plane or cutting it. There are various maps that go with the cutting it route, but honestly they look weird.

People who care about such things have complained for years about the current map projection because it's stretches northern regions so the country look bigger than the actually are. Although it doesn't really matter until you get in the Arctic circle.

Projections of the earth on a flat plane is one of those “theres more than one way to skin a cat” type of things

The mercator projection became the standard because its math makes all rhumb lines straight on the map, which is helpful for maritime navigation. But the sizes of countries are out of whack.

The UN logo is itself actually an alternate projection called the azimuthal equidistant projection, which is a projection where all the lines of longitude are straight instead and everything is accurately proportionally distant from the pole. It’s also favored by some due to it showing all the continents other than Antarctica without a split in the Pacific ocean. More of a global perspective rather than eastern vs western “hemispheres”

The new equal earth projection is similar to the mercator but does not make straight rhumb lines, so everything is proportional. When we decide how to represent the earth on a flat map there is always some kind of emphasis on one thing or another to make it most useful in some way. Given that most navigation is now done via GPS, this new standard map is one that has more political importance versus practical/functional importance in its design