Current Events > Global Overpopulation Solved by Boomer Meme!!!!!!

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I actually did the math because I was slightly bored. There's roughly 421 million acres in Alaska, which is enough to give everyone in the US one but not much else.

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i dont think id be comfortable in alaska tho


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Ratchetrockon posted...

i dont think id be comfortable in alaska tho

Not a lot of people would. It would be cool to visit but not live.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

I actually did the math because I was slightly bored. There's roughly 421 million acres in Alaska, which is enough to give everyone in the US one but not much else.

If you divide the land by household instead of each person and given that the average household size in the world is 4.9 people, each household can have a little more than a fifth of an acre in Alaska which is similar to a suburban home.

If you cram people together like in New York City (27k people per sq mi), then everyone could live in Texas and Oklahoma with enough room to grow to over 9 billion.

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Paragon21XX posted...

If you divide the land by household instead of each person and given that the average household size in the world is 4.9 people, each household can have a little more than a fifth of an acre in Alaska which is similar to a suburban home.

If you cram people together like in New York City (27k people per sq mi), then everyone could live in Texas and Oklahoma with enough room to grow to over 9 billion.

I think the numbers I used were Alaska is 656424 square miles. There's 640 acres per square mile. Although I looked again and I am probably under on my number of square miles in Alaska the result is still that there's no where near enough room. I came up with 420 million acres which is a rounded down amount.

That was one of the things I brought up is they are saying you should live like NYC, but farther down says you should have an acre. Just one person per household would be 43 people per acre of land at NYC density levels.

My math may be wrong though.

i didn't take into account multiple people living in the same household. I also didn't take into account what percentage of land in Alaska (or Texas, or Oklahoma) is actually useable and people could live on it. There's mountains and deserts in some of these states and people can't live in those.

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It's not wrong. The entire earth's population could live in a city the size of Texas

Overpopulation isn't a problem, though.

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Well, what are we waiting for? Let's solve overpopulation!

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Isn't there like a ton of free land in Montana and shit?

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unnamedsoldier posted...

It's not wrong. The entire earth's population could live in a city the size of Texas

It is wrong in the sense that land mass is not and never has been the limiting factor

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The issue is there isnt enough capital for everyone since the rich are hording it

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Overpopulation is literally not a problem actually scientists are worried about incoming depopulation and under population

Food isn't scarce. The government actually has people destroy it for reasons.

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Imagine thinking that overpopulation is a land mass problem

The entire human population of Earth could be squeezed into a cube 1 mile on each side. This would solve overpopulation. Build the cube!

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unnamedsoldier posted...

It's not wrong. The entire earth's population could live in a city the size of Texas

I mean yes, we could build buildings to fit 44 people per acre (what it would be if the global population lives in a city the size of Texas) but we couldn't "give everyone an acre" like it says. In fact according to Google the CONTINENTAL US only has 2.43 billion acres of land which means everyone person would get about a 1/3 of an acre over the continental US. That means we obviously can't give everyone an acre in Texas, or Alaska, or any state because our country doesn't have enough land to give.

And don't even get me started on how "nicely" they would live.

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Who wants to live that close to people?

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Overpopulation is a myth used to justify all kinds of horrible shit in the name of culling people but it's not because you can fit everyone in Alaska.

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I mean, this meme is half-right.

Overpopulation isn't the issue, but rather resource-hoarding by the world's wealthy.

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Didn't Scrooge say something about people starving to death being good to "lower the surplus population"?

Didn't seem like a nice guy, imo.

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Hur hurr it's still snowing. How's that global warming?

Ratchetrockon posted...

i dont think id be comfortable in alaska tho

With all those giant buildings and enery usage it will be nice and warm. All the other places will likely be unlivable, but Alaska will be nice now.

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The funny part of that "meme pic." is that it goes on about overpopulation being a lie(which it is), then brings up food scarcity as if it isn't also a lie.

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Alaska is large is a inhospitable wasteland though so I'm not why it of all places is being used to house everybody.

That and transporting food, and supplies there fresh, undamaged and within a timely manner would be a logical nightmare.

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Sounds to me, based on the replies on this thread, we could solve all the problems by eating the rich.

*pushes glasses up nose*

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Dakimakura posted...

With all those giant buildings and enery usage it will be nice and warm. All the other places will likely be unlivable, but Alaska will be nice now.

oh maybe u are right

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Alaska will be paradise when humans are done

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Frizzurd posted...

Hur hurr it's still snowing. How's that global warming?

My dad makes this "joke" every winter

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I mean, this meme is half-right.

Overpopulation isn't the issue, but rather resource-hoarding by the world's wealthy.

It absolutely is an issue. The planet is dying.

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Overpopulation is a myth because as societies develop, there's a noticeable drop in birth rates (already a big problem in places like Sweden and Japan, starting to happen in the US too but it's offset by immigration)

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1337toothbrush posted...

Overpopulation isn't a problem, though.

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Squall28 posted...

It absolutely is an issue. The planet is dying.

Overpopulation isn't a problem. Overconsumption is. First world countries with declining and negative birthrates consume vastly more resources than undeveloped countries with high birthrates and populations, because developed countries demand so many luxuries and conveniences.

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Overpopulation is not really the issue, overconsumption is.

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overpopulation is a fascist myth

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Squall28 posted...

The planet is dying.

Okay, so you admit that the real issue isn't overpopulation, but rather destructive environmental practices and distribution of wealth and resources then.

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Squall28 posted...

It absolutely is an issue. The planet is dying.

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There may be room for everyone but a lot of that space is uninhabitable and where would food be farmed if everyone was living on all the land so yes I believe theres population

Do you know how many people could live if we just lived in VR pods like the matrix?

This overpopulation myth myth is a lie about underestimating overpopulation

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If everyone was giving an acre in Alaska, and our sustenance was farming outside in our lawns, wed all be dead within a few months from living on a near frozen wasteland incapable of growing food.

Alaska probably wasnt the smartest example to use

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ok but for real though, lawns suck and would be much better as vegetable gardens

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Fuck living on an acre of land. I need concrete, a city. My 850 square foot apartment is big enough.

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I mean there's a reason cities are built where they are, most have access to large fresh water supplies. You can't just put a city in the middle of nowhere.

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isn't this a libertarian meme? you know, the same people that want to build a mile long boat filled with a few thousand rich people and tens of thousands of functional slaves just so those rich people can avoid taxes?

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buddhamonster posted...

If everyone was giving an acre in Alaska, and our sustenance was farming outside in our lawns, wed all be dead within a few months from living on a near frozen wasteland incapable of growing food.

Alaska probably wasnt the smartest example to use

The argument was probably thought up by some Trumper who has never left Alabama and has no idea what Alaska is like

Overpopulation is a myth

Oh so thats why I have to deal with traffic every day! Of course

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rexcrk posted...

Overpopulation is a myth

Oh so thats why I have to deal with traffic every day! Of course

that's a function of too many cars. not too many people

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averagejoel posted...

that's a function of too many cars. not too many people

its a function of population too densely packed, like building a new york style city the size of texas to fit 8 billion people would be...

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