Interest idea.....but let’s see, India with slightly over a billion souls, and China with well over a billion souls.....hmmmm...ya think 55% of the world’s population might live in an area encompassing those counties...?
Mark
That must be why the Himalayas are rising. All those folks on the edge of the plate are making it tilt.
If humans evolved from Africa how did they become so densely concentrated in Asia? It has always seemed odd to me that in a world with slow transportation the dispersion of humans would occur as it has been postulated based on a few fossilized skulls.
Okay, but what if we read “densest” and “tightest” in other ways? Where’s the circle then?
Thought provoking indeed. Wonder what such a study would be historically? Has Sino-Asia always been the largest population?
Thanks for this post.
I’ve speculated that a nuclear exchange between India and China that killed a couple of billion people might be a net environmental gain.
El Salvador has the most population per square mile of any country in Latin America. Also, Mexico City has 30 million people. Statistics can be misleading.
When I moved from a more densely populated area in the east to the wide open west, I was struck by the realization of just how much room we have. Later I visited southern California and saw what an environmental hellhole it is. No wonder they think we are destroying the planet!
All that to say it is folly to think that our piddling population could make a dent in global emissions when that many people live in such close quarters on the other side of the planet.