How much room the entire world population would take up if standing side by side

Yeah I read you can fit the entire world population standing room only inside Jacksonville, FL city limits.

Or if you fit the entire world population in Texas, it would have the population density of Paris.

Probably outdated anecdotes at this point, but you get the idea. Fly anywhere in the US and look out the window, it's largely uninhabited.

 

but resources are still scarce... just saying #weneedmorespace lol

 

I'm down for testing this out, if I can stand next to Beyonce.

 

And I'll stand behind her.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City

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According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.[4] Bairoch points out that, due to sparse population densities that would have persisted in pre-Neolithic, hunter-gatherer societies, the amount of land that would be required to produce enough food for subsistence and trade for a large population would make it impossible to control the flow of trade. To illustrate this point, Bairoch offers an example: "Western Europe during the pre-Neolithic, [where] the density must have been less than 0.1 person per square kilometer".[5] Using this population density as a base for calculation, and allotting 10% of food towards surplus for trade and assuming that city dwellers do no farming, he calculates that "in order to maintain a city with a population of 1,000, and without taking the cost of transportation into account, an area of 100,000 square kilometers would have been required. When the cost of transportation is taken into account, the figure rises to 200,000 square kilometers ...".[5] Bairoch noted that this is roughly the size of Great Britain.

We may not take up much space but when you factor in the resources we use, the wildlife we trample over, use, displace or pave over, that everyone "needs" two cars, a driveway, garage and a large two story house, every modern convenience known to man within five miles of where they live plus an ever expanding appetite for food (which takes up far more resources than you realize), then, yeah, you'd see that there's more to it than how much space we use. Throw in the fact that at least a quarter of the world's land is wasteland (Antarctica, the Australian Outback, countless mountain ranges, western US away from the coast, most of Canada, most of Russia, pretty much all of Greenland, etc...) and that because of disease and crime it wouldn't be a good idea for too many people to live too close to each other, then you see why there are more factors at hand than just how much space each individual person takes up.

The carbon footprint in the US and other Western countries as an example is absurdly large.

 

It's not about space, it's about consumption.

 

With my luck I'd get stuck next to a fat, sweaty person.

 

I thought the conservation school of thought is actually touting density a good thing.

Building high rise multi-resident house structures and having everything within radius and walking/biking distance is what saves needing to use gas guzzling vehicles. And from needing expansive infrastructure using so much resources.

 

Overpopulation is a f%cking myth and anybody who touts it needs to be taken out back and shot.

 

There are still problems associated with that (granted, we need more Manhattan style cities and fewer Houston style cities, sorry) and no method would save us from ourselves if this trend continues:

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Even if that tapers off some, it'll still absurdly high and strain the planet's resources that much more.

 

Yes, let's all live in one square meter. Where do I sign up?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation

Look at the graph on that page and then also consider that the industrial revolution changed life and how many resources we use, which naturally conincides with the explosion in population starting in about 1800.

 

I don't like Wikipedia. Furthermore, nothing you post will change my mind. This is something I have researched diligently. Overpopulation is a myth and something that the elites and the rich tout as true.

 

nah

 

Wow that's a lot of people. We need to eliminate a few billion.

 

Nope you are right people are causing absolutely zero harm to the world.

 

3 billion in Asia and 700 mil in Africa and we're good for the next 500 yrs.

 

WTF are you talking about? I never said people don't do harm to the world. There could be two f&cking people on the earth and they could do harm to the world. Overpopulation *****heads state there are too many people on the earth and that it is getting worse and worse. And they act like it is impending doom if we don't resolve this immediately and that all of our resources will dry up instantly and there will be total chaos. This is just not true and it never will be. If you believe it is, then I hope you DIAF along with your buddies Bill Gates and Attenborough.

 

the problem is that little red square can destroy the entire blue planet...