How can resource management address the issue of population control?

[e.coli]

There are some who have a political or other agenda motivating them to make a hue & cry about population control.

The http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html" is 6,903,465,258.

The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" (for example) is 260,558 sq. mi.

That means you can fit the entire population of the world into an area the size of France, at a population density of just under 26,495 people per square mile. At 640 acres per square mile, that's just over 41 people per acre (or an average family size of 4.7 people per 50'x100' lot)

That's not a population problem, that's a resource management/distribution problem.

Thoughts?

 

[WhoWee]

If everyone lived in a single (well planned) city, with high speed electric trains shuttling people out to work on farms, logistics might be simple? Perhaps this will be the formula in the future - on new planets?

 

[ektrules]

Not this argument again... A family can't survive on a 100' x 50' lot. Even if they could, I'd imagine they'd drive each other crazy and kill themselves.

I will refer you to this page, just because I don't feel like searching for journal articles about this subject: http://ingles.homeunix.net/rants/density.html

To sum it up, it would take 3 Earths for everybody to live like Americans. This also does not take into account resource depletion, environmental/soil degradation, the need for stable ecological systems, etc...

 

[WhoWee]

Not this argument again... A family can't survive on a 100' x 50' lot. Even if they could, I'd imagine they'd drive each other crazy and kill themselves.

I will refer you to this page, just because I don't feel like searching for journal articles about this subject: http://ingles.homeunix.net/rants/density.html

To sum it up, it would take 3 Earths for everybody to live like Americans. This also does not take into account resource depletion, environmental/soil degradation, the need for stable ecological systems, etc...

Aren't there families living in 100' x 50' apartments (or much smaller)?

 

[ektrules]

Aren't there families living in 100' x 50' apartments (or much smaller)?

Yeah, but they don't live off 5000 sq. ft. They don't get their fuel, food, and building materials from 5000 sq. ft.

 

[WhoWee]

Yeah, but they don't live off 5000 sq. ft. They don't get their fuel, food, and building materials from 5000 sq. ft.

Of course not - were you responding to my post originally?

"If everyone lived in a single (well planned) city, with high speed electric trains shuttling people out to work on farms, logistics might be simple? Perhaps this will be the formula in the future - on new planets? "

 

[ektrules]

Of course not - were you responding to my post originally?

"If everyone lived in a single (well planned) city, with high speed electric trains shuttling people out to work on farms, logistics might be simple? Perhaps this will be the formula in the future - on new planets? "

Oh. No, I was responding to the OP originally. Yeah, that might be good formula on new planets (if we ever get that far) where building self-contained environments in hostile environments would be expensive. I'd think it would be uncomfortable living that close together to other families in small quarters though.

 

[StevieTNZ]

To sum it up, it would take 3 Earths for everybody to live like Americans. This also does not take into account resource depletion, environmental/soil degradation, the need for stable ecological systems, etc...

I hardly want to live like an American.

 

[ektrules]

I hardly want to live like an American.

LOL. Well, substitute just about any "first-world" country for the word American, and the results are the same.

 

[dipungal]

Aren't there families living in 100' x 50' apartments (or much smaller)?

You failed to consider multi-story buildings currently seems to be comprised mostly of apartments. It makes the actual amount of area accommodate a number of people quite flexible in practice.