Posted on 06/03/2025 11:12:30 AM PDT by Jonty30
“It’s the volume of resources required to sustain them that matters”
From my blog a few years back.
Texas Can Hold The World
Texas has 261,797 square miles of land area
1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet
So Texas has 7,298,481,484,800 square feet of land area
The world population is 8,062,000,000/5 = 1,612,000,000 households of 5 people each
Dividing the 7,298,481,484,800 square feet of land area in Texas by 3000 (3000 sqft. lots)
Giving us 2,432,827,161 1500 sqft homes on 3000 sqft lots,
Subtracting the 1,612,000,000 households from the 2,015,500,000 1500 sqft homes leaves us with 403,500,000 houses are still empty.
And all of the rest of the world to grow food. And yes, I realize that I didn't allow for roads, etc. That's what the rest of the US is for.
Not at the rate of our pollution!
That's not to say the 5% we do occupy isn't an environmental mess, but it's much, much less polluted and stressed than it was 100 years ago. For gosh sakes, Lake Erie caught on fire it was so polluted. Municipalities dumped raw sewage and untreated industrial waste into rivers and streams. Combustion stacks had no scrubbers or recovery systems. That's all changed now.
Also,I could be wrong (and hope I am) but it seems very possible that the First World's standard of living will decline as a result of the efforts of those 6 billion to obtain a cart made of tin rather than wood and to enjoy two bowls of rice a day rather than one.
Whose pollution? China and India are BY FAR the biggest polluters of every kind. The air quality index for most of the western world is typically around 40-60, while many parts of India are in the 600-800 range some days, and the best locations are typically in the 80-100 range, as is the majority of China.
We better remove 2 billion or so just to be sure.
I've heard Catholics repeat that nonsense. Is that where you heard it? It takes more than land it takes arable land with water. Be my guest and go to West Texas on your three miserable acres and live there off the land for three years and get back to me.
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
Pollution has decreased dramatically over the last decades.
Just look up any existing long term data, eg on atmospheric pollutants.
Your destruction/pollution tropes are just balooney. Nothing against you but I’m sick and tired of people parrotting stupid ganggreen’s propaganda.
Last plan I heard of removed 7.5 billion.
Username checks out.
That’s how much space it would take. Obviously there are other factors to be considered. Still the US alone is roomy enough. Don’t forget your meds today. You need them.
I have read several years back that you could take every person in the world, give them an acre of land and could fit them all in the State of Texas.
There is probably truth to that. It is really a misallocation of resources and not overpopulation that is the root of the problem.
Not to worry. The One World Order, under the guise of Climate Change, is working really hard at making sure every poor country gets what is coming to the from the developed, western nations.
“ I just drove 250 miles through southwest Virginia. I’ll bet we didn’t see 2 dozen people. There’s zero overpopulation.”
Southwest NM is pretty much the same way except that you would be lucky if you saw two people.
The world is nowhere near overpopulation.
That myth grounds massive rationalizations of violence against humanity ranging from abortion to deliberately deadly viruses.
You’re not putting me in a house with 4 other people.
Well, I was thinking of a husband, wife, and 3 kids, but didn’t you ever have roommates in college?
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