From: Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 12:31:42 MST
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:31:29PM +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Damien R. Sullivan wrote:
>
> > It's absolutely true that we're not overpopulated in a living-space
> > sense. The whole world could be packed into the United States at light
> > suburban densities (four people per acre, 1000 people per km^2. LA is
> > 3500/km^2, NYC about 12,000, Manhattan 30,000)
>
> 1000 people/km^2 does only sound not overpopulated if you're talking about
> ambulatory trees.
>
> Population density of 1000 people/km^2 is not possible at current level of
> technology. Dramatic change in lifestyle, routing mesh traffic and
What are you smoking? Did you read my parathesis? Any city worth the
name today has a much higher density than 1000/km^2. That's including
transportation (and park) space. The city isn't producing its own food,
of course. But then that was my point in responding to James; I was
skeptical of 2 billion people supported by North America. For just
living space it's easy.
-xx- Damien X-)
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