[PugetSoundSoldier]

Interesting factoid:

If you took every single living person on the ENTIRE planet - all 6.6 billion of us - and put us in a city with density as high as New York (not just Manhattan, but the Bronx, Brooklyn, etc) we’d all fit on the land area of Texas.

The water flow out of the Columbia river between Washington and Oregon could supply each and every person with 26 gallons of fresh water every day.

All the existing farmland in the US - only farmland, not parks, cities, forests - outside of Texas, and including the farmland of Alberta could supply the nutritional needs of all those people.

Meaning we would not need a single acre of forest or park converted anywhere, or to have any person, resource, or harvest anywhere on any other continent, the rest of Canada, Alaska, Central America, or any of the oceans or islands.

To think we’re overcrowded is insane; we have distribution problems, and that is a political - not resource - issue.

[matthew fuller]

"If you took every single living person on the ENTIRE planet - all 6.6 billion of us - and put us in a city with density as high as New York (not just Manhattan, but the Bronx, Brooklyn, etc) we’d all fit on the land area of Texas. "

George W. Bush heard that and he's trying to prove it! Doing one hell of a job, too!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Land in a over populated world was never a problem.
If science could someday convert the desert land in the west part of the USA or in other parts of the world would be a great benifits for us and would support all of us.
Another problem is jobs and economics.
Your right , the problem is logistics, and ? some ( not all ) of our natural resources need to be conserved or look for new supplies. i.e. oil.

[RockinRight]

Perhaps, but I’m not one for you or the government telling me that we must all live in skyscrapers.