The World Is Getting Crowded.

There isn't much to say here except the fact that the figures & the pictures will do the talking.

Here is the population list:

(Country            Population            Date          % of world population).

World             6,671,226,000       July 1, 2007            100%

PRC               1,323,081,672       Jan 8, 2008             19.83%

India               1,131,043,000       March 1, 2007        16.95%

United States   303,202,683         Jan 9, 2008             4.54%.

Map of population by country.

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Population Clock:

U.S. 303,206,447.

World 6,643,115,000.

11:26 GMT (EST+5) Jan 10, 2008.

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Some of the most densely populated areas in the world is in Japan. Much of Japan's 125 million people live in crowded cities along the coast.

Water park in Tokyo.

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Water may be a issue in future:

As demand for water reaches the limits of finite supply, potential difference between nations that share transboundary freshwater reserves may rise.

Despite advances in agriculture, the fresh water supplies that it depends on are running low worldwide.

State of affairs in East Asia:

The flow of the bicycles during the early morning rush hour.

There are many people and few train cars, so the people are trying to enter through the windows.

The train station is full of people going down south to work, so that the bathroom line is longer than 45 minutes.

During the spring vacation, the train station is full of people.

Here are a few photos of traffic conditions:







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Is overpopulation really no problem?

So it turns out that if 5% of the United States were converted into urban area with a population density of 6,000/km², and 45% were converted into suburban area with a population density of 2,000/km², with the remaining 50% left for rural area, parks, and farms, there would be enough room for 3 billion in the urban areas, and 9 billion in the suburban areas, for a total population of 12 billion. This is in the US alone. This scheme could be extended to the other countries and continents for a total population of around 100 billion. Everything between the Arctic and Antarctic circles are potential places for colonization. This is about 130,000,000 km² of land area (the circumpolar regions have about 20,000,000 km² of land).

The five major issues to this are:
Colonizing the deserts
Colonizing the highlands
Providing energy
Providing food
Disposal of waste.

Apart from this unless population is brought under control things are further going to dip.

Our planet is running out of room & resources, & if this continues we may have to colonize the outer space.

So is it as simple as it sounds? Are we ready for colonizing the outer space?

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