Planet Not Actually  Overcrowded... and Here's Why

By Barry Secrest

Excerpt From:

Extreme Consequences: The Death of Common Sense in America

In fact, were you to take the total number of persons on the planet, which is 6.8 Billion, and plop them all down in the United States, not only would they enjoy expansive liberties for at least awhile, they would also have plenty of room.  The population density would actually work out to roughly 1,830 persons per square mile.  Once again--if every person on the planet lived in the United States the population would be proportionally manageable leaving all of the other continents barren of human life.

Now I would wager that this would come as a surprise to many who have been led to believe by the Media and Environmentalists that we are packed in like sardines on the planet.   So in comparative terms, we would have the same  approximate population density as Copenhagen, Denmark, which, ironically, was the sight of the United Nations Global Warming Conference.  For comparative scale, here are a few other population densities:

• New York City:  Density of 71,201 persons per square mile
• Paris France:  Density of 65,700 persons per square mile
• Washington, DC:  Density of 9,316 persons per square mile
• Los Angeles, CA:  Density of  8,174 persons per square mile
• Charlotte, NC:  Density of 2,838 persons per square mile
• Anchorage, Alaska:  Density of 165 persons per square mile
• Death Valley, California:  Density of .22 persons per square mile

Knowing that most of our Liberal Media and our Liberal Academia seem to proliferate in cities of scale, it is no wonder that they have no true nor realistic knowledge of the actual size of the planet.  Nor of how minuscule the population density of the world is as a whole.  When looking at the numbers from a holistic scale rather than from what you see from your 70 story apartment tower, the size and scope of human population is very small indeed.  Understanding the scope of population densities, however, does lead us into a somewhat better understanding of how great or how little of an impact we can and do actually have on the "entire" environment as a world populace.