Population density - Bill Nye (clueless) and World Population
Earlier, I
had posted about how Bill Nye (the science guy) was bloviating about our planet's supposed overpopulation.
I brought up the simple fact that the current world population could be housed in the state of Texas and have the same density as the island of Manhattan (and I forgot to mention that this is the entire island, not just the downtown parts). That leaves a lot of space left over for growing crops...
Today, the Silicon Greybeard
posted this:
The Truth Behind Overpopulation
Chances are that all your life you've heard about how overcrowded the earth is. It's a basic tenet of militant environmentalists, who always seem to talk about saving life on Earth by destroying humans - as if we're not a native animal on the planet. It's basic to Agenda 21, the massive UN program. From the story in that link I posted two years ago:Central to the plan is the idea of being carbon neutral. That's right, "global warming" or "climate change" or whatever they call it this week, is the basis for mass murder on a scale that Mao, Pol Pot, or Hitler could never aspire to. You see, to quote from this piece at End of The American Dream, the population must be reduced:�CNN Founder Ted Turner: "A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
�Dave Foreman, Earth First Co-Founder: "My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it�s full complement of species, returning throughout the world."
�Maurice Strong: "Isn�t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn�t it our responsibility to bring that about?"
Gee, the moderate guy only wants to kill off more than 95% of the human race. See the current world population is around 7 billion people. For Dave Foreman, 100 million out of 7 billion is 100 out of 7000 or 1.4 %. At 300 million, Ted Turner would generously let 4.3% live.
So how bad is the overpopulation that we need to kill off billions of people? John Robb at Resilient Communities runs this graphic of how large an area the population of the world would consume if we housed them in the style of six different cities.
An excellent graphic at the site -- even if we allowed for the population density of Houston, TX (
3,371.7 per square mile -- 2000 census data), it would still only take about 2/3 of
CONUS to house the entire world's population.
The world would be a far better place if the Reverend Thomas Malthus had never been born.
Posted by DaveH at June 10, 2013 9:36 PM