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Area of NYC: 303 sq mi Population of NYC: 8.49 million Area of Alaska: 663,268 sq mi 2189 NYC fit in Alaska. 918 NYCs hold 7.8 billion people. The population of the world fits in half of Alaska at NYC density, even less if they meant Manhattan only.
Area of Manhattan: 23 sq mi (land) Population of Manhattan: 1.632 million. About 28,838 Manhattans fit in Alaska, and we'd need 4,779 Manhattans to hold all of the people in the world.
A square mile holds 640 acres, so Alaska has 424.5 million acres in total.
I think the acre of land may have not necessarily been in Alaska.
Interestingly, the US is 3,531,905 sq mi of landmass, so 2.26billion acres, not enough for everyone in the world to have one.
They probably meant everyone can get one acre of land in the world.
I agree with the idea that we are not overpopulated but not all acres of land are equal. There may not be enough arable land to give everyone an acre. Saying that though, 1 acre of land can feed and house a family of 5.
Expand to the entire North American continent, and every family probably could have 1 acre.
Not out of my acreage, though. Get your own acre. My acreage is all hills and rocks, like I like it.
I think the general idea of the graphic is sound. There's no overpopulation. Nature and all will figure out how to live around us.
Or crush us once we've grown too bothersome.
That single acre must be fertile af.
In reality, you want an acre a person roughly.
Fuck an acre of land give me the same value in a sailing vessel tyvm.
Vertical agriculture
Man, I am happy if every 5 people get half an acre of arable land. Life can be infinitely more relaxed and wholesome than what it is now.
One just needs think outside the box and an acre is a LOT of land. Stop thinking in 2 dimensions and use all 3. All the sudden one care is a shit ton of land. Can live in a decent house, have more than enough land to grow food and have live stock.
Just have to be creative. No you cannot be a rancher. But you can grow more meat per square foot than a rancher given the correct type of meat.
That's exactly it.... unfortunately you have to really explain that to some people...
"The entire world population of 7.8 billion people could fit into the state of Alaska and give them all an acre of land and everyone would fit nicely"
No reading between the lines for that one, its simply incorrect
It's also invalidates your post. Not to knock what you're putting out there, but it's probably best to double check your math before posting
When you look at a FLAT map of the world the size of the land areas are skewed. On a globe, they represent closer to reality. If you took Japan and placed it on the east coast of the usa, it stretches from tip of Florida, all the way up to Canada but, looking at it on a flat map, it looks much smaller than that.
I was really surprised how big Japan is when I visited. Big mountains big rivers. I knew that there is big country in Japan but for some reason it impressed me more upon visiting. I am dumb lol
Not dumb, just forced to look at Flat maps that are skewed in land mass dimensions all your life, same as the rest of us. I did not know, until I knew. lol
Isn't the earth flat asking for a friend
No, it is Hollow, didin U know?