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World Map of Population Density Monday, Nov 23 2009 

futurism and images Michael Anissimov 9:41 pm

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1. Ryan says:

   November 27, 2009 at 9:52 am

   I would also mention that even in those red and purple spots people are not yet packed shoulder-to-shoulder. I remember hearing (though never confirmed) that the entire world’s population could fit in Texas (with every family having a house and a yard.)

   Overpopulation is one the most miserable pieces of pop science to ever exist and gain wide popularity. It started in Britain with some painfully simple math and has yet to die.

   More then that, it led to coercive and often destructive government actions. There was a time early in the 20th century that governments considered putting anti-fertility drugs in food-aid to poor countries.

   Since then, the supposed disasters caused by overpopulation have been rescheduled and rescheduled and have always failed to come to fruition.

   Thats because the math doesn’t (and can’t) consider changes in behavior , improvements in technology, as mostly: economics.

   (I might also add: overpopulation is shockingly similar to those God-awful resource depletion myths.)

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   January 25, 2012 at 2:14 pm

   Color is up to you but you ought to use latex paint so you can peel it off later.

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