There is no such thing as overpopulation

One fact I always quote at the end of 4th grade:

What if we were to build Australia, furnish it like the municipality of Dilbeek? A Flemish village with 1000 inhabitants per km²

The earth has just over 7.7 billion inhabitants, Australia is 7.7 million km².

A simple calculation shows that the population density of this vast country is about 1000 inhabitants per km². That’s about the same value as Dilbeek registers.

If everyone would move to Australia, the rest of the world would be empty!

One continent for agriculture,
one for raw materials and energy,
one for vacation destinations and
one to shelter unspoiled nature.

Totally not realistic of course, but it still makes you think and it is a bit of “out of the box” thinking.

Although? Did you know that there is a plan to build a city in the desert of Saudi Arabia? Neom!

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