| According to the numbers in the atlas in front of me, if we were to take America's forest, croplands, and meadows, and divide it amongst the world's population, each man, woman, and child could have a lot thirty meters on each side, which sounds pretty comfy to me. Now, there may be better uses for some of that land, but there is certainly plenty more, and that's without the use of, for example, apartment buildings, much less subterranean dwellings. The world is seriously huge, and we're very good at packing ourselves in. Hell, we can build islands, if we have to.
Now, the ecological impact of our ever-increasing population may result in harm that will regulate our population, but we've certainly found many ways to minimize our footprint which are hardly used today. Even if our population growth plateaus for a while, it'll only be till we learn a few lessons about the environment, then we'll be off again.
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