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?
But you realize China isn't overcrowded actually though, right? It's only because people choose to live in select metro areas and not in rural areas. There is lots of space left in China that people just choose not to live in.
That's all well and good but we already use almost all of the land that's doable for agriculture as it is. While there might be enough room for humans physically, we do not produce enough to support the world. We're draining water tables and escalating desertification just trying to keep up with current lifestyles. It's not just food. It's everything. And yeah if we stopped producing most of the food on the planet just to feed billions of feed animals instead of more efficiently feeding humans we'd be much better off, but I don't see many people putting down the hamburgers
People need to scale back big time on what they're consuming just to support the population we have
adjl posted...
"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.
to be fair, i didn't get into sustainability
just that the entire population could fit into texas
but we can bump it up, say, alaska if someone doesn't feel that texas is big enough. it is, though. ---