Over Population

Coruscant, a world of one city. Ever wonder what the population would be? I heard a television preacher once say that all the people in the world, if you put them into the nuclear family of four, could fit in Texas with nice size home lots. I thought this was absurd and wondered how he could get away with such crap. I realized it wouldn't even be that hard to check. What an idiot?

Yeah, who's an idiot. Texas is 268,601 mi². At the time there were 6 billion people on earth. So if you make that into 1.5 billion families of four and divide that into the space you end up with around 5,000 ft² or a lot 40ft wide by 125 feet deep; a normal sized lot these day in any city.

Texas takes up about 1.9% of earth's habitable land which is only 12.5% of all of earth's surface. So when you begin to think about it over population is a lot of bunk. There are area's that are extremely dense like New York; in fact Monaco is the most densely populated area with 43,000 people per square mile. If you brought that type of density to Texas you could fit 11.5 billion people there. New York is also very high with 26,403 per square mile. Again, applying that to Texas you're at 7 billion. I'm not arguing that the assets are distributed evenly, just that there is an amazing amount of land and the highly publicized "overpopulation" in the early part of my life I hardly hear anymore. Perhaps because it was all a bunch of lies to scare people but easily debunked. Every few years there's a new one to scare people again but eventually fades. Satan benefits by keeping people in a state of panic; that's what's real and constant.