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Most of the "empty" space on the map world is an inhospitable desert. Sahara, Australian Outback, Namib, the Arctic, North American West, Tibet, Kazakhstan, Ant
by pacala 7y ago
Most of the "empty" space on the map world is an inhospitable desert. Sahara, Australian Outback, Namib, the Arctic, North American West, Tibet, Kazakhstan, Antarctica, Patagonia.
Granted, a few pockets of wild forests left, Amazon, parts of Central Africa, New Guinea, Siberia. Under intense development pressure. Hard to call that "most of the world".
- TomMarius 7y agoThere certainly are ways to live there. Granted, it needs some colonization effort - still easier than colonizing Mars, and actually producing some technologies for that.
- pacala 7y agoThe past 200 years is the era of energy-intensive technological innovation. What is the evidence that the technology innovation pattern we've experienced so far can shift into ultra-low energy mode at scale? In inhospitable environments to boot. PS. Mars colonization is folly.
- TomMarius 7y agoThe need to find new places to live, perhaps combined with regulatory effort.
- Turing_Machine 7y ago> Most of the "empty" space on the map world is an inhospitable desert. Southern California is an inhospitable desert, but tens of millions of people live there nonetheless.