lpogoda wrote:

occupant wrote in message ...
Another trend in our area is people downsizing and opting for condos.
Yes, these condos are quite luxurious and spacious, but much less
smaller than what the owners had before, and with no yard to maintain.

Depends where you live. Paris, London, Vancouver, not so. Each year
the
square footage of a condo/apartment gets smaller and the prises go up,
up,
up. The planet is getting full, more full in some areas than others.

Assuming there are 7 billion people in the world, and they are each
and every one of them six feet tall with a waist size of 48 inches, I
calcullate that the total bulk of humanity is around a third of a
cubic mile. Someone check my arithmetic, but the world is a
looonnnnggg way from being "full", though in some areas, a lot of
people are trying to stand on the same dime.


Ah, if only the infrastructure needed to keep 7B people alive
would fit in a small space as well. Crop land, grazing land,
water treatment and sewage treatment facilities, the wall space
between persons since people won't live packed
like sardines in a can, it all adds up. True, the world isn't
"full" as you put it, and will collapse long before the overall
body density gets anywhere close to what you've postulated
above.

JazzMan
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