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November 1, 2011

"Where in the world could we put 7 billion people?"

"How about Texas? It is the second largest state in the USA with 268,820 sq. miles
which computes to 7,494,271,488,000 square feet (sf) or about 7.5 Trillion sf." A little division and that comes out to about 1,071 sf available per person in Texas alone for all (every single person) seven billion. Imagine that, everyone in Texas and the rest of the world vacant, empty, devoid of mankind. --Riley Driver's Point of View: Seven Billion

Posted by Vanderleun at November 1, 2011 8:52 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I've been wondering when this viewpoint was gonna generate a little more noise ever since I started pointing it out a couple of years ago.

Simple math: Square Area of Texas / World Population = x sq ft a pop.

A similar exercise reveals that the population density of a Texas thus peopled with the entire world's supply of humans......

Would be less than that of present-day Manhattan.

And so much for all that over-population-we're-all-gonna-die-unless-everybody-gets-an-abortion bullshit.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at November 2, 2011 7:26 AM

"Stand on Zanzibar", anyone??

Posted by: leelu at November 2, 2011 8:54 AM

Weirdly, that computed space-per-person is almost exactly the size of my house.

So it's not like they're going to be bumping into each other, unless of course they want to.

Posted by: CGHill at November 2, 2011 7:57 PM

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