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Alaska has 365 million acres if land.
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.