Overpopulation

[1ke]

Timidity:

Some quick math:

Current world population: About 6.4 billion
Land area of Brazil: About 2.1 billion acres

So…if we (for some reason) wanted to, we could give every person on the planet about a third of an acre, and never leave Brazil!

Of course, 1/3rd of an acre is not enough land to work and live off of, but we have a lot more planet than Brazil.

(Why Brazil? I picked it randomly as some country that was mostly lush – not so much arid land to make the point invalid).

Actually, economist Jacqueline Kasun did research and the whole world’s population can fit inside Texas, I believe it was somewhere between 1/2 and 1 acre each.

 

[Timidity]

1ke:

Actually, economist Jacqueline Kasun did research and the whole world’s population can fit inside Texas,

I purposely avoided Texas because much of the state is arid. Besides, i used to live there, and I don’t want the place getting crowded!

 

[Rascal]

1ke:

Actually, economist Jacqueline Kasun did research and the whole world’s population can fit inside Texas, I believe it was somewhere between 1/2 and 1 acre each.

I have heard this or a similar statistic. Thank you for pointing out the source.

I think the statistic went further to point out that this is considerably less area than say people living in Tokyo. i took this to mean that if everyone had a large amount of living space, everyone would fit in TX. Of course the rest of the world’s land could provide the resources for energy, food, etc.