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Originally Posted by Jason S  We can use his example about the scarcity of resources to illustrate the piont... think land for a moment, which is the ultimate "fixed" resouce: if all six billion people on earth tried to manifest a 10 acre plot of land for ourselves, we'd overshoot the total inhabitable acreage on the planet by about 4 acres per person, if my math's right. |
Nah. I live in a land-scarce country, one of the most densely populated in the world. We get by, by reclaiming land extensively from the sea, effectively expanding our surface area. Also we build extensively upwards (ie many highrise buildings) and increasingly we build downwards (eg we have extensive underground shopping areas).