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by vasco 500 days ago
We could put all of humanity in the space of Texas at the density of Manhattan, so I don't think we lack space.
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But we would not then be able to safely handle sanitation, transportation, air pollution, etc. Nor would we be able to handle the logistic required to feed everyone in such a scenario.

"Hypothetically, if we were to jam every human on earth into a space the size of Texas; it would just have the same pop. density as Manhattan" is not remotely the same as "in practice, all of humanity could comfortably live in a space the size of Texas with the density of Manhattan."