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The world is far bigger than most realize. Split completely equally there's enough room for more than 200,000 square feet per person. [1] Thats about 4 football
by ANewFormation 2y ago
The world is far bigger than most realize. Split completely equally there's enough room for more than 200,000 square feet per person. [1] Thats about 4 football fields of area for every single man, woman, and child alive today.
Factor in that some people enjoy living in urban areas, most won't leave in any case, and so on - and we're realistically talking about tens to hundreds of football fields per person. It's a big world out there.
[1] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F+number+of+people+on+earth https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F...
- 93po 2y agoonly about 71% of all land is habitable, and there would be a lot of other restrictions in terms of access to resources, and we need land dedicated to stuff like manufacturing and shared common spaces, so that per-person number quickly gets much smaller
- fulafel 2y agoAccording to https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture of the habitable land, still half is used for agriculture.
- fulafel 2y agoHow much of appealing countryside is there that is attractive living area for humans?
- SteveVeilStream 2y agoAlthough that is true, the counterpoint is that I think some people underestimate the potential impact on animals and how much room away from humans they really need. Some interesting recent research here: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/01/human-recreation-pushing-the-forests-largest-carnivores-further-than-previously-thought.html https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/01/human-recreation-pu...