While accurate, a lot of times this is used to erroneously argue that we could therefore increase the population on Earth with current tech by like an order of magnitude, which ignores the massive quantities of land required to feed all those people.
Night light maps tell the tale.
Whole lotta dark areas out there.
While accurate, a lot of times this is used to erroneously argue that we could therefore increase the population on Earth with current tech by like an order of magnitude, which ignores the massive quantities of land required to feed all those people.
exactly^ grandson & I laugh about this every time we go for a ride.
there are thousands & thousands of acres/open land, animals everywhere.
feel sad for the city people who don't get to experience it, but then again, that is their 'choice'🥸 they must have conveniences.
They don’t know hot to act away from their cities...do not invite them out. They trash their own shitholes...so can not act appropriately in ours.
I did once try to find the world's most dense city and based on that calculation, everyone wold fit into Oklahoma.
If you were happy with just a pile of bodies then everyone would fit into a one kilometre cube. In terms of mass, some insects beat us.
The people of Texas would shoot anyone that tries to fit them into such a space!
Post like this are simply misleading and promote complete garbage rationale. Should delete this shit.
So basically either a Mega City from Judge Dread. Or a Hive city from Warhammer 40k. With the violence and crime rates to match I should think
This was the main point of the book "Stand on Zanzibar". I remember my ideas of over-population started crumbling after reading that book.
That and Paul Ehrlich losing his bet.
I think the bet had to do with resource scarcity?
It did. He thought humanity was doomed to suffer because the population would always be growing at a faster rate than the food supply.
Which is nonsense, of course. And he paid up.
But his book, "The Population Bomb," continues to be adhered to as if it were truth.
Missed out Tokyo, although it might be too small to see on a full map of the US.
Imagine the Sahara green again and all the aereas on that belt to China. Place enough. Let the climate getting warmer, and all is good.