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Two Earths would be needed to sustain human activity by 2030, report finds
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Posted on 05/16/2012 5:40:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Mad Dawgg

Figuring one square meter per person, everyone on the planet would cover little more than Delaware.


101 posted on 05/16/2012 6:55:31 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: stockpirate

Sorry, off by 20x.

268,820 square miles
6 billion people
0.029 acre per person
1,249 square feet per person.

A tad tight, if you ask me.


102 posted on 05/16/2012 6:56:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: LouAvul

From my perspective looking at geologic global temperature records, “global warming” is the only thing saving us from plunging into a new very-long-term ice age right about now.


103 posted on 05/16/2012 6:57:33 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: Sub-Driver
The water table gets low, skeptics scream, the rains come, the water table returns to normal. Forests are harvested, replanted, harvested and on and on. In North America there have been articles that American forests cover about as much land as when Christopher Columbus landed. As long as there are enough green plants, air will be OK. As for food, well -

stuff like this has been published for as long as I can remember. And then on the other side of the coin are articles and studies that the US alone has the capacity to feed the entire world.

Somewhere in between lies the truth

104 posted on 05/16/2012 7:07:13 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ILS21R

Is that the Protonalactic drive version? Awesome.


105 posted on 05/16/2012 7:11:03 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: JohnBovenmyer

One earth for liberals, one for the rest of us. We’ll take the old ‘ruined’ one (easily fixed without them) and they can go ruin the new one.
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They will not want the new one, that would be work to build infrastructure, houses, roads, airports etc. they will take the old one and think they are set for life.


106 posted on 05/16/2012 7:13:35 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse will learn to sing)
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To: Sub-Driver

All the liberals can move to the new planet.


107 posted on 05/16/2012 7:15:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

So, we need one Earth for the 99%, and another for the 1%. Occupy that!


108 posted on 05/16/2012 7:18:47 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Sub-Driver
When Earth II is discovered all Liberals and their like-minded ilk should be sent there.

Let's see which world does better in a couple centuries.

109 posted on 05/16/2012 7:22:51 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Two Earths would be needed to sustain human activity by 2030

Not to worry. A new heaven and a new earth are comming...soon.

110 posted on 05/16/2012 7:22:51 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: stockpirate

Sorry, but each person doesn’t need a sq ACRE just some sq Ft and it comes to about 1,2118 sq ft per person. A Family of 4 would not need 4,800 sq ft. If you build apartments, NYC style, there would be plenty of room. It probably would be just about what NYC looks like, bldg’s, parks, water and all. We’d still need folks to live outside Texas to grow, fish transport , etc. SO THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM


111 posted on 05/16/2012 7:28:45 AM PDT by capt B
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To: Vaquero
so we could be crowded here in America, like China, Japan or India. stay in hotels that offer coffin sized rooms. not for me..

Not to worry... it would take centuries of exploding growth to reach those levels, so you won't be around anyway.

In the meantime, if you like wide open and empty land, there's plenty of room in Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas,Kansas,Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Canada, Alaska, Russia, Mongolia, the Saraha,... . You surely will be able to find a few empty arces.

112 posted on 05/16/2012 7:32:35 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Farmer Dean

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The libs should hook up with this guy in looking for another earth.


113 posted on 05/16/2012 7:43:58 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: Sub-Driver

And yet, if you gave every human on the planet a 3’ x 3’ square to stand in, they would all fit in a fraction of Florida...


114 posted on 05/16/2012 7:45:17 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Red Boots
In the meantime, if you like wide open and empty land, there's plenty of room in Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas,Kansas,Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Canada, Alaska, Russia, Mongolia, the Saraha,... . You surely will be able to find a few empty arces.

no excuse my french, but leave the friggin open land alone...I want my kids and grandkids to be able to go there and hunt that land...not sit behind a friggin monitor from birth to death and rub shoulders with everyone because there is no room for individuals and individualism.......

115 posted on 05/16/2012 7:47:12 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Sub-Driver
It's time to start moving the democrats to their new digs.


116 posted on 05/16/2012 7:50:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If you want total security, go to prison. The only thing lacking is freedom - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: Vaquero
but leave the friggin open land alone.

That's not going to happen. Humans will use available resources.

/johnny

117 posted on 05/16/2012 8:08:33 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SamuraiScot

And with subterranian bullet trains, middle-eastern muslim terrorists would only be 30 minutes from everyone.


118 posted on 05/16/2012 8:11:20 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: TomGuy
In the 60s and 70s, the effort was toward Population Zero -- in Western societies.

At the time, "Zero Population Growth" was a popular cause on the western slope of Fiji Hill, where I went to school.

119 posted on 05/16/2012 8:56:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“In the news, the Earth will end at 10:00, details at 11...”


120 posted on 05/16/2012 9:25:11 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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