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.5 hectare ~ 1.24 acres
NYC pop 8.468 million ~ 10,500,320 acres
us pop = 331.9 million ~ 411,556,000 acres
world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres
using .5 hectare estimate
or about 40 million square km, roughly 3 times the size of russia
Yeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.
there's 15 billion acres of land, and this doesn't count the sea or ancillary resources like urban farming, i assume. just to keep anyone from taking this data in a malthusian direction. 1 billion americans (as they are now) is a nightmare
Agreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers
I would imagine in practice there's some overlap -- like, an acre of agricultural land meeting some fraction of input to several cities at once
That's really the problem imo, not space. Geometry is easy. It's all the limited reagents in the formula for feeding millions that's the problem.