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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Famous "fact" from my youth is that everyone on Earth can fit onto the Isle of White
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The Isle of Wight - not White - has a surface area of 384 km^2, or 3.84 * 10e8 m^2, per
Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earth's population is currently about 7 * 10e9, meaning you'd need to fit a bit over 18 people* on each square meter. I'd suggest the only way you are going to manage this is with hydraulic presses.
Now if you'll refer back to my original post, I believe I said that there is not enough area for everyone to live a DECENT lifestyle, including sufficient open space - a minimum of several acres per person - for mental and physical health. That some of us - an unacknowledged elite - can manage to do this is only due to the fact that a large fraction of the population has been forced or persuaded into cramming themselves into cities.
*Coincidentally, that's about the number you can cram into a Volkswagen Beetle. The record is 20, but they use small people.