Im sorry but that in no way puts anything in perspective. Looking at land size needed to occupy a population is irresponsibly linear. How about perspective.
For each human born, given current average lifespan, 72 years, how many more people will they create?, averages- roughly 80 to 100 with a 3 generation extended family.
How much water, food is consumed and impact does a 100 people living on avg of 72 years with a death ratio of 6% ?
-28,200,000 gallons of water(consumed) not used
-290,880,000 gallons of water (used) not consumed
-6768 tons (13,536,000 lbs.) of food consumed
-437,100 trees cleared and consumed
-7,050,000 miles travelled
The power to create a human life is one of the greatest responsibilities we have, it should be used and considered wisely.
Extrapolate this to the world population and it is staggering. There is a reason the term "critical mass" was coined to represent the human population once the benchmark of 4 billion was observed.
I was coming to say the same…8 billion people, the US is roughly 3.8 million square miles, each square mile is 640 acres which comes out to be 1.92 billion acres. So theoretically, every man, woman and child could have 1/4 of land in the US
Do the math.
Take the entire world's population (7 billion? 8 billion?).
Assume an average of 4 people per household.
Assume everyone lives in a house. No condos, apartments, etc.
Assume every house is on a quarter-acre lot (about 1/4 the size of a football field).
How large of an area would be needed to house the entire world's population?
A little bigger than about twice the size of Texas.
With the rest of the world empty of humans.
Puts it into perspective.
Im sorry but that in no way puts anything in perspective. Looking at land size needed to occupy a population is irresponsibly linear. How about perspective. For each human born, given current average lifespan, 72 years, how many more people will they create?, averages- roughly 80 to 100 with a 3 generation extended family.
How much water, food is consumed and impact does a 100 people living on avg of 72 years with a death ratio of 6% ? -28,200,000 gallons of water(consumed) not used -290,880,000 gallons of water (used) not consumed -6768 tons (13,536,000 lbs.) of food consumed -437,100 trees cleared and consumed -7,050,000 miles travelled
The power to create a human life is one of the greatest responsibilities we have, it should be used and considered wisely.
Extrapolate this to the world population and it is staggering. There is a reason the term "critical mass" was coined to represent the human population once the benchmark of 4 billion was observed.
I was coming to say the same…8 billion people, the US is roughly 3.8 million square miles, each square mile is 640 acres which comes out to be 1.92 billion acres. So theoretically, every man, woman and child could have 1/4 of land in the US