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[Moontanman]

[QUOTE=Essay;214624]I wasn't suggesting we all move to Texas and try to make it work; it was just an example of how "crowded" the Earth really is (or isn't). Thanks for doing the math though.

Sounds as if we're both advocating a push forward to becomming Type 1; maybe it's just the goal or motive behind the push that is different?

~brb

But more on Topic....

You missed my point, the nine billion would fit in Texas for sure but how much of Texas is really suitable for humans? You would have to take away all the mountain sides and scrub deserts, all the unlivable areas. If you did that you would be quite crowed and still not have a means to obtain food. It works the same way on the earth. I am 53 years old. I can remember when the earth held about 4 billion or so people. Livable areas were much less crowed than they are today. Far more woodlands were empty. Now in the same area where I lived almost all the flat land is gone. Houses are every where. You have to travel more than a hundred miles just to approximate the same living conditions that were common when I was young. It's the same way on the Earth. People cannot live on every square inch of the earth. Huge areas are unlivable or taken by wildlife. Look at the countries like India, and China, everywhere you look you see over crowding. We need to reduce the population to about 1 billion to really have a chance at correcting the environmental problems we have. It's more correct to say how much land is necessary to support one human. I think you find that we are already very much over crowded and to say we could support nine billion is ludicrous. So how any square feet does it take to support a human? You have to ask how do you want to live, maybe in thousands of mile high towers? Or spread around the globe in impoverished ghettos? No, everyone wants decent life style. We don't have room for what we have for everyone to live at a level where poverty isn't the norm.