Maven
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Canada | km2 for each person on earth?
Let's say you were to equally spread out every person on the earth (land only), how much space would each person have? |
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grobinette
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Springfield, VA
clubs: | About 6 acres if you don't care if the land is inhabitable or not.
Current population divided by 57,900,000 square miles.
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Fundy
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Nova Scotia | Texas 267,336 sqmi for 6 billion
Yes and if they all lived in Texas, each could have about 1200 sq foot of land. Of course that is with nothing left over for roads, crop production, etc. |
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TexasGuy
49 States And Texas
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Houston, TX | Don't get any ideas there. |
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Bozono
@cable.rogers | reply to Maven
Excellent thread. Goes to prove overpopulation really is no problem...under the guise Senor Bush...I digress. Anyone else think world population stats are overinflated? |
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Hayward
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Key West, FL
1 edit | Except you have to throw out 50% or more of the land as uninhabitable, or needed for food production, wild habitat, etc... then the numbers get much smaller per person.
Not to mention there NEEDS to be OTHER things than man living on the planet too!!!
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Bozono
@cable.rogers | reply to Maven
We can burrow |
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2kmaro
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| Not completely sure of my land size figures - but best I could figure out from »apps.fao.org/faostat/form?collec···guage=EN
is that there's about 17,110,936 square miles available for habitation. The rest is tied up for agriculture, pasture and is otherwise uninhabitable? That works out to something like 368 people per square mile. Which doesn't quite seem right to me. But...
But there is a broad range of population densities. One source I found shows that the U.S. has about 38-47 people per square kilometer, while Japan has 1,605 people per square kilometer of 'habitable' land!! Mountains and agricultural land sure puts a crunch on you!
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Jon Geb
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Howell, MI | reply to Bozono
What does Bush have to do with anything here? |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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but as long as tech lets us build higher we can fit more people into existing cities. if i had the engineering knowledge and the building tech was available and the funding/interest id put into the works my 250 story super tower. Condos, Apartments, shopping, offices, greenhouse on the roof. just think how much sprawl space could be not used if you built towers like this.
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A900MHz Fan
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Mitchell, SD
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I don't think space is going to be a problem. My father is a farmer and he has heard statistics such as by 2020 the USA will only produce enough food for itself and by 2040 will have a food shortage for our population. Yipes!
Neal |
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coxta
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Here is an article to help stimulate your appetite for the growth of the human population.
Earth has suffered irreversible damage: study
CTV.ca News Staff
See this: »www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s···ub=World
quote:
Humans are damaging the Earth at such an unprecedented rate that the strain on the planet may destroy about two-thirds of its ecosystem services, according to a landmark international study.
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Maven
Millennium Gate Tower is the only way then. now to find a place that can support it and a few hundred billion to fund it.
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tdkyo
join:2002-12-07
Rochester, NY | reply to Maven
Um, we should build ocean cities or as Bozono stated, live somewhere that is not land. (space, underground....)
But I don't think we will be having that problem for a while~ |
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