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- From: crabe@den.mmc.com (Carlyle J. Rabe 7-1697)
- Subject: Re: population load question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.205216.2038@den.mmc.com>
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- References: <26032@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Sep3.160709.11059@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Sep3.171421.5807@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:52:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.171421.5807@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.160709.11059@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Scott@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Scott) writes:
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- >> Whatever the population carrying capacity turns out to be, we can say
- >> with some certainty that it is less than the current 5+ billion.
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- > For starters, define "carrying capacity".
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- Gentlemen,
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- Has it ocurred to any of you population explosion gloom and doomers
- that if the entire population of the world were moved into the state
- of Texas that the population density still would not exceed that of
- Queens, NY? With this in mind, how can you argue overpopulation
- and keep a straight face? Please explain.
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- NOTE: 5 billion folks/269,000 square miles=18,587 folks/square mile.
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- CJR
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