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we are far far from too many people on this world. the amount of land not in use is at risk of exceeding ability to support more people any time soon. Figure a
by Shivetya 9y ago
we are far far from too many people on this world. the amount of land not in use is at risk of exceeding ability to support more people any time soon. Figure a third of the land is usable for agriculture and only ten percent or such actually is and not all equally. Meaning we can certainly feed more people and the environment could support them except for politics.
- gorkonsine 9y agoOne problem with this idea is that the land usable for agriculture also has to compete with other uses: residential housing, etc. You can't build housing in places where you can't grow food, because people don't really want to live in those places. So any place that's unusable for agriculture is also generally useless for most other human activities (it's either too hot or too cold, or is a wetland). We already have enough environmental problems because humans have taken over too many wild spaces. There is not a large supply of usable land left; we've already used it. Point to a place that's currently unused, and I'll show you why no one wants to live there.