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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: MSB who wrote (68574)12/24/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (5) of 108807
 
The myth of overpopulation:

Myth 1: The world is overcrowded and population growth is adding

overwhelming numbers of humans to a small planet.

In fact, people do live in crowded conditions, and always have. We

cluster together in cities and villages in order to exchange goods and

services with one another. But while we crowd together for economic

reasons in our great metropolitan areas, most of the world is empty, as

we can see when we fly over it. It has been estimated by Paul Ehrlich

and others that human beings actually occupy no more than 1 to 3

percent of the earth's land surface.

If you allotted 1250 square feet to each person, all the people in the

world would fit into the state of Texas

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