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Nik · 09-19-2008, 08:41 PM

@ Jeremiad

Here's another rough calculation for you.

Assume your 1/2 Alaska Megacity is there, and working just fine - with 7 billion people resident there. Can you imagine how much food is required to sustain those people? If you displace every person onto the streets (getting crowded), you would roughly need to cover at least half the entire city landscape (horizontally, not vertically) with food to feed them all. Even if you assume 1/10 of the entire city flat area, you are talking about a daily food consumption covering 1/20 of Alaska **DAILY**.

This was an extremely rough example, but still puts the resource requirements into perspective.

The point: a) people tend to be greedy and wasteful, b) it is extremely hard to support 7 billion people without harming the planet gravely.

As I realized a short while ago, people have mostly forgotten the meaning of need and replaced it with 'want'.

09-19-2008, 08:41 PM	#8
Nik Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 129	Re: Important Question for George Greene @ Jeremiad Here's another rough calculation for you. Assume your 1/2 Alaska Megacity is there, and working just fine - with 7 billion people resident there. Can you imagine how much food is required to sustain those people? If you displace every person onto the streets (getting crowded), you would roughly need to cover at least half the entire city landscape (horizontally, not vertically) with food to feed them all. Even if you assume 1/10 of the entire city flat area, you are talking about a daily food consumption covering 1/20 of Alaska DAILY. This was an extremely rough example, but still puts the resource requirements into perspective. The point: a) people tend to be greedy and wasteful, b) it is extremely hard to support 7 billion people without harming the planet gravely. As I realized a short while ago, people have mostly forgotten the meaning of need and replaced it with 'want'. Last edited by Nik; 09-19-2008 at 08:50 PM.