RE: Overpopulation
October 27, 2011 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2011 at 2:19 am by Justtristo.)
(October 26, 2011 at 5:38 pm)Vaeolet Lilly Blossom Wrote:Justtriso Wrote:A lot of Australia is either desert or at most semi-desert, if you were to over-impose a map of Australia over the Sahara desert, that would show you how much habitable land there is in Australia.
'Habitable' ≠ 'inhabitable'. You can build on desert as easily as fertile plains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai#Geography nice little jewel of the desert.
Anyway, that's not the point: we get more than half our food from overseas... and water probably not dissimilar. There is no reason you can't build a city anywhere (as long as you've figured out how to build there), since there's always a way or six to make it work
The continental USA is very different to Australia, imagine if 80% of the continental USA was as dry as say the deserts of Arizona and Nevada, with a lot of the remainder being like the semi-arid high plains. That would leave narrow strips of land both west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains and East of the Appalachian Mountains Mountains being not Arid or Semi-Arid and containing the vast majority of the population.
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