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rogerskg1979 posted...

helIy posted...

i dont think people realize that the entire population of the world could all live comfortably in a place the size of Texas.

Bullshit. Do you have an actual source for that or is your butthole your source?

China has a population of about 1.4 billion and a total area of about 3.7 million square miles.

The world population is about 7.6 billion, and Texas has a total area of about 260,000 square miles.

So you're saying you can put 5.5 times the Chinese population into a total area that is 14 times smaller, and everyone could "live comfortably"? That may be one of the stupidest things ever said on GameFAQs. You do realize that China is already very overcrowded and people already don't live comfortably there, don't you?

"Live comfortably" is an exaggeration, but you'd have a pretty comparable population density to that of Manhattan (26,403 people/mi^2, whereas putting 7.6 billion people into Texas would yield a density of 28,297). Establishing the infrastructure necessary to sustain that kind of density over such an area would be extremely challenging, certainly, and won't ever be practical without communist-style resource control, but if we're strictly looking at the density that's not a degree of overcrowding that people aren't already perfectly willing to live with.
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