all propaganda for one theory.
^Looks like someone didn't understand the arithmetic.
The entire world population could live in Texas and still have a population density that is roughly half of Paris.
Given.
And this time I won't even bring up the space all those ppl's crops and sewage and seawater and energy generation and forests and streams require. Let's say their tech can put all of those absolute needs underneath their feet in some unicorn-carved caves or something... Well we're still fucked.
Why? Because:
1. Texas is a considerable chunk of the available land we have.
2. As this film points out, it's the RATE of Growth, not just the mere space or density, that you really need to be worried about.
The Earth's total land mass is 57,511,026 square miles, or about 29.2% of its total surface.
All land/Texas land= ~237
Then strip out frozen land and vertical land and other places you can't survive on, and let's call Texas a 200th of all the habitable land on Earth. (Yeah that's a guess.)
So at the RATE of population growth we're at now, we've already consumed
a 200th of the livable Earth, according to your 1/2-Paris-density point.
How long will it take to expand 200 times? This film sorta answers that and the answer is BLEAK. As in your-grandchildren-are-going-to-kick-your-old-arse-for-still-taking-up-their-space bleak.
Not to mention, would you want to live on an elbow-to-elbow planet? Sounds horrible. Ppl would be killing each other just for some damn breathing room...
Then account for rising ocean levels and it starts to look like we're going to be one of the last generations on this planet to own any land.
Allz I got to say is they better invent self-sustaining floating cities QUICK.
