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by t123 3297 days ago
iow a 2ar garden for every human being currently living on our planet with still plenty of room left and this with only using land that's already deforested.. (+ we could easily grow a lot food on water. the tech is already here, waiting to be assembled - although not needed) .. this is meant to be a philosophical-kind-of-post, and its appropriate to recap that the 2 most important limiting factors in terms of population growth are (low)childhood mortality, (freely-available)education and a (working) social safety net (if an educated woman could have children without risks in her late 40s and live an active live up to her 90s ,,)
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Yes, there is obviously a lot of space on the planet, but we should talk about places people actually and increasingly live, ie. Asian cities, particularly Chinese and Indian cities.

So let's rephrase that to "At current densities where most of the world's people actually live there is no way everyone can have a garden, because of lack of space."