Yeah, enough is enough and 6 billion sounds like enough to me. Its
not like all those millions in Calcutta and Bombay are just having a
fine time jammed together on the sidewalks (call it home) trying to
avoid starvation, heat stroke and cobras.
Anyway, by my math you'd need 600,000 square miles to pack in 6
billion people at 10,000 per square mile (denser than Washington
D.C.). Thats Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California at least.
And 6 billion is probably old news by now, call it 7.
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Arden Kysely"
wrote:
>
> Sure, pack 'em in! But don't forget that they need food and homes
and
> produce waste. There may be resources for 6 billion on the planet,
but
> what about 12, or 24, or 48? Where does it stop? Where do the
> resources come from? Can you call it living if you bump into
someone
> or step in their waste every time you turn around? We go to places
> like Death Valley just because they are empty and we enjoy the
feeling
> of space. If every landmass was chock-full of humans we wouldn't
have
> much place to ride, or otherwise recreate. Why not hold the
population
> steady and keep the Earth a decent place to live? On the other
hand,
> putting them all in Texas sounds pretty good, too. 8~)
>
>