I saw this thread by eboomerang http://wazua.com/forum.a...&t=14535#post209735

and on that interesting article ‘Plan your family or we will halt free primary education project’


Of course I topped it by reading the usual charlatans

and observed their favorite cartoon



So I got on calculating and came with interesting results.

world population estimated at 6.94 billion.

Round off to 7 billion people.

Assuming each person is to be given a generous 50x50 square metres = 2500 sq m,
then 7 billion people would occupy approximately 17,500,000,000,000 sq meters.

That would mean each person, his wife (or her husband) each of their children, each of their brothers you get the drift, all persons even the new born gets a 50x50 sq metres piece of land for life.

I think that is a reasonable size, its no use having extra land you dont need......

Converting that to sq kilometres all the world population today would occupy only 17,500,000 sq kilometres. Africa alone is 30,221,532 sq kilometres.

If everybody was to stay in Africa today each person in his house on his given 50x50 sq metre plot, all the world population would not fill Africa, even after giving generous allowance for the rivers and lakes, mountain tops and deserts and perhaps al shabaab.

And the other continents Australia, Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America will lie empty and fallow to be used entirely for food or other suitable entreprise if desired. Not counting Arctic and Antarctica.... and of course the still free land in Africa and the area being freed up by death.........

So where is this 'over population' hype coming from?

Something is seriously wrong with the way the world is currently set up. Somebody is complicating things somewhere.

This is definitely not how our creator created this world to be. I beg to be corrected, maybe I am wrong!

@YesuWangu, please read http://dieoff.org/page13.htm

@ yesuwangu,

consider this:

Earth's dry land surface area = 93,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under forest cover = 28,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under mountains = 19,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under game reserve = 13,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under roads and road reserves = 3,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under antarctica = 9,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under unhabitable desert = 9,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under food cultivation= 9,000,000sq.km

Earth's surface suitable for housing(uncultivated land, cities and towns) = 3,000,000sq.km = 3,000,000,000,000sq.m

with a population of 7,000,000,000...the land distribution per capita is 3,000b/7b = 430sq.m

so under the present circumstances, if everyone was to get a share of the earth's land surface, each would be entitled to only 430sq.m or about 70 feet by 70 feet!!!!

Closer home....

"Every day, the numbers swell at the camp that was started about 19 years ago.

Apart from the new arrivals from neighbouring Somalia, there are newborns, arriving faster each day, threatening to overburden the very basic resources.

Indeed those born the year the camp was set up are hitting marriage age.

The life cycle goes unaltered due to little intake of family planning.

It is normal to encounter a woman in her early 30s with up to 12 children..."

Having many children now mark of honour among refugees

@ yesuwangu,

a conversion factor of 1.6 was inadvertently omitted...this is the true scenario

Earth's dry land surface area = 148,800,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under forest cover = 44,800,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under mountains = 30,400,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under game reserve = 20,800,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under roads and road reserves = 4,800,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under antarctica = 14,400,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under unhabitable desert = 14,400,000sq.km

Earth's surface area under food cultivation= 14,400,000sq.km

Earth's surface suitable for housing(uncultivated land, cities and towns) = 4,800,000sq.km = 4,800,000,000,000sq.m

with a population of 7,000,000,000...the land distribution per capita is 4,800b/7b = 700sq.m

so under the present circumstances, if everyone was to get a share of the earth's land surface, each would be entitled to only 700sq.m or about 88 feet by 88 feet!!!

thanks for the correction...

for your information antarctica is considered a dry land although it is covered by ice!!!

a fact....if everyone on earth lived the same kind of life and occupy an identical space as americans in the USA do, we would need 12 planets the size of earth...as for canada we would require 3 planets...!!!

Only way this would be workable is if we become. (socialists).

kwani how do Americans live? such that we will require 12 planets?

all of them?

around 80% of americans live in cities, i.e suburban dwellings and appartments.

no I have never been to a typical american suburb or apartment, why do you ask ?