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Regardless of how small a physical space the world's population could conceivably fit into, there's still the biodiversity cost, energy use, and other knock-on
by richmarr 17y ago
Regardless of how small a physical space the world's population could conceivably fit into, there's still the biodiversity cost, energy use, and other knock-on effects of increased population. I do wonder where these figures come from, and what the agenda is here.
- onreact-com 17y agoIt's a "pro life" agenda as I've found out on their website. Nonetheless there are really human rights abuses due to the overpopulation assumption. In China forced abortions are common. Lately they rather fear overaging of the population though.
- iamwil 17y agoYeah, I was wondering how one would have schools and businesses. Unless we go to school and mcdonalds can operate in your house, we need something a little bigger than texas.
- sant0sk1 17y agoHow about Australia? It's more than 10x the size of Texas.
- StrawberryFrog 17y agoHow about it? The large cities are all on the coast, and most people live there - it's more urbanised than anywhere else. The rest is hot, dry and largely uninhabitable and uninhabited.
- khafra 17y agoWe could all still Stand on Zanzibar(1), but I'm also reminded of a Harlan Ellison short story I can't locate that had a very large number of humans living in cramped, vertical dwellings with the rest of the Earth given over to intensive farming. It might be possible to support many more people, but that doesn't mean it's a pleasant or admirable objective. There's also the deletorious effects of the "green revolution"--when the natural gas for making nitrogen-based fertilizer runs out, the shock to the minimal remaining topsoil will be famine-ifying. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar