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originally posted by: Cygnis
Talk about being packed in like a bunch of rats.
Are you accounting for other spaces, like grocery stores ('cuz not everything can come from a garden).
What about work spaces?
What about streets, parks, rec centers, movie theaters, pubs! office spaces, super-markets.
Epic fail. The calculation requires a whole series of metrics, including everything from energy/capita to water use/capita. All require varying large amounts of land per person, on average of course. Texas factually could not support 7 billion people in a vacuum, assuming current tech and even current varied standards of living across the world.
originally posted by: galien8
Dutch average living area (house and garden) for one person: 140 square meters (m^2)
World population: 7 billion
Texas area: 700,000 square kilometers (km^2)
1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
Required for world population "one family one house one garden" policy: 980,000 km^2 (7 billion times the 140 m^2 living area per capita)
OK close enough
This puts the overpopulation issue, which may or may not be true, for other reasons, in perspective
originally posted by: galien8
Dutch average living area (house and garden) for one person: 140 square meters (m^2)
World population: 7 billion
Texas area: 700,000 square kilometers (km^2)
1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
Required for world population "one family one house one garden" policy: 980,000 km^2 (7 billion times the 140 m^2 living area per capita)
OK close enough
This puts the overpopulation issue, which may or may not be true, for other reasons, in perspective
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
originally posted by: galien8
Dutch average living area (house and garden) for one person: 140 square meters (m^2)
World population: 7 billion
Texas area: 700,000 square kilometers (km^2)
1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
Required for world population "one family one house one garden" policy: 980,000 km^2 (7 billion times the 140 m^2 living area per capita)
OK close enough
This puts the overpopulation issue, which may or may not be true, for other reasons, in perspective
Epic fail.
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: galien8
Dutch average living area (house and garden) for one person: 140 square meters (m^2)
World population: 7 billion
Texas area: 700,000 square kilometers (km^2)
1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
Required for world population "one family one house one garden" policy: 980,000 km^2 (7 billion times the 140 m^2 living area per capita)
OK close enough
This puts the overpopulation issue, which may or may not be true, for other reasons, in perspective
The bean counters have all that figured out long ago.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
a reply to: galien8
The issue has never been about land size; it's been about the production, allocation and distribution of critical resources to such a large number of people that can be done effectively and efficiently.
Do you have a solution for that?
originally posted by: galien8
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
originally posted by: galien8
Dutch average living area (house and garden) for one person: 140 square meters (m^2)
World population: 7 billion
Texas area: 700,000 square kilometers (km^2)
1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
Required for world population "one family one house one garden" policy: 980,000 km^2 (7 billion times the 140 m^2 living area per capita)
OK close enough
This puts the overpopulation issue, which may or may not be true, for other reasons, in perspective
Epic fail.
Its only a thought experiment, to get an idea how much little space the world population occupies, not even a blue print for a future city