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What if Everyone Lived in Just One City?
What if everybody in the world, all 7.4 billion of us all lived together in the same city? How big or small would this city have to be and how close together or far apart would we all be living from each other? This video explores those concepts and visualizes what a massive global city would look like were it to ever exist in the real world.
4 Comments on "What if Everyone Lived in Just One City?"
Cloggie on Sun, 25th Sep 2016 9:39 am
To elaborate a little on the video and get an idea of the amount of space all “human biomass” combined would occupy while standing eyeball-to-eyeball:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht_(province)
1400 km2
makati1 on Mon, 26th Sep 2016 8:44 am
Hmm. According to your figure of 1400 km2, that is about 3% of the Netherlands land surface. Are you inviting ALL of us over to your neighborhood?
ALL 7+ billion of us could fit on one of the smaller of the 7,000+ islands here in the Philippines.
Davy on Mon, 26th Sep 2016 9:10 am
Yea, Makati!, in your unpublished sci-fi pulp fiction.
Cloggie on Mon, 26th Sep 2016 9:26 am
For every human there are ca. 65 trees. Nobody ever complained about too many trees on this planet. But then again, trees don’t go places, don’t need an iPhone, a home with central heating and power shower, computers or holidays to Spain.
The solution, surprisingly, comes from Britain:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Buckingham-palace-guard-11279634947G5ru.jpg
If we all behave like this guard and as such imitate tree behavior 24/7, everything will be honky-dory.