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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  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). |
ALG, So you've made trade-offs... eg, by building up, not everyone gets a 10 acre plot.
btw, do you realize that if we reclaimed 24 billion acres (4 acres x 6 billion people), we'd be nearly doubling the planet's inhabitable land mass? Since much of that is ocean, where would you suggest we put all that water?