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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isnt actually true.

The surface area of just the land alone on Earth is more than enough to house every human alive right now. Its actually more than enough to house every human that ever lived since the dawn of human history on it with room to spare according to expert calculations. The global population didnt even hit 1 billion people until like 1800. Now, if you subtract out all the currently unlivable areas because of nuclear radiation and harsh weather and such, you're still going to have enough land for every human alive right now to live comfortably.

Its just that modern humans hate the idea of living so spread out, and apparently all want to be stacked into the same 10 miles of land. Also, governments charge money for land, they're not giving that away for free.

EDIT: In case you or someone else wants to check exact math, heres the data:

Earth Land Area: 148,326,000 square km (this is actually only 30% of the Earths total surface area, the other 70% is covered by water)

Human population (total since dawn of humanity, estimated): ~110,000,000,000

Human population (current) ~8,000,000,000

My estimations put it at around 15,000 square feet per person ever born, or approximately 200,000 square feet per person alive right now.