HeyBub wrote:
Greg G. wrote:

Slight correction.


We're running out of
room and resources here, unless you consider every square mile of dry
land seething with humans to the exclusion of all else to be a
desirable situation.

If all the people on earth were stacked up like cordwood, they would
fit in a cubic mile. (1 person = 10 cu ft, 1 cubic mile = 147 billion
cu ft = 15 billion people per cu mile - allowing for some wiggle room)

If all the people of earth were living in an area with the population
density of Hong Kong, they would fit in Mauritania. Population
density of Hong Kong 16,500/sq mile, 6 billion folks / 16,500 =
410,000 sq mi required. Mauritania is about that size, as is Bolivia
and Ethiopia. You could fit ten times the earth's population in the
United States.

Therefo

Virtually every resource is more abundant today than it was in 1980.
See the Simon-Ehrlich Wager (Ehrlich of "The Population Bomb" book,
Julian Simon of "The Ultimate Resource").

Conclusion: We are running out of neither room nor resources and that
the fullness of time has proven wrong virtually every prediction of
the prophets of doom (global cooling, Malthusian theory, oil, etc.).

So how much land does it take to feed all these people? Or are you one
these damned fools who thinks that food appears by magic in grocery stores?