Newsgroups: aus.politics, nz.politics, alt.conspiracy
From: Benway <captai...@mailpuppy.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:07 -0800 (PST)
Local: Tues, Jan 15 2008 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: Is the World Over Populated? Lets do the math... The World Can Fit In Texas
Carole wrote: ********************************** > Is the World Over Populated? Lets do the math... The World Can Fit In Texas > http://hunterkirk.livejournal.com/326561.html > The world has a surface area of 510.072 million sq km. Well clearly we can > Now let us do some translations. For every 148 sq km you get 37,000 acres of > 37,000 acre = 148 sq Km meaning that the world has about 3.68*10 to the 10th > 37,000,000,000/ 6,525,170,286 = 5.67 acres per person > That does not sound like a lot does it? Some may say "Much of the land is > Now lets say we move all the people of the world to the state of Texas. They > That does not sound like alot. But wait how much is .02568 acres? > Thusly if we moved every living human to Texas and the split the land amoung > http://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf > "The average American house in the 1940s had an area of 1200 square feet". > http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/hh6.pdf > The average population of a household in the USA is 2.5. Ok then combined > http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-NewYork.html > 8,143,197 People live in the area of New York City. New York City's land > .02529 acres per person in a working, functional, and "Safe" city. How much > CONCLUSION: The total world population could move to Texas and make Texas in > Summery: The world ISN'T over populated and has a long way to go before > * * * > Another article at - > IS THE WORLD OVER-POPULATED? > It is certain that the world is NOT over-populated. Are you shocked by that > Carole This is from: * http://enough_already.tripod.com/ * This is one of the worst excuses for overpopulation ever invented, yet it keeps appearing in cornucopian rhetoric. Its origin would be interesting to trace; it couldn't have come from a demographer. Such simplistic calculations ignore the vast amounts of water, land and energy required for modern life. They also ignore other species' need for shrinking habitat. People have dissected the landscape, leaving nature in broken pockets cut off by development. People also gravitate to the most livable areas, which further restricts land-use scenarios. For life to be sustainable, ecosystems must remain quite large in relation to densely populated zones. Calculations vary, but the "ecological footprint" of the average American is said to exceed 5 acres. For 300 million people (as of late 2006) this equates to 1,500,000,000 acres (about 1,500 x 1,500 miles) or 80% of total U.S. land acreage. If you tried to fit 6.6 billion people (2006 world population) in Texas, there would be about 25,000 per square mile over the entire State. That's about 7 times as dense as the Dallas metro area. Texas can't even sustain its actual population without imports; true of most modern nations. These "Texas Hold 'Em" fallacies are mindless variations of the food distribution arguments above. * http://enough_already.tripod.com/ * ********************** You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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