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To: MSB who wrote (68574)	12/24/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to 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 Full article: synasoft.com