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Edward O. Wilson on Human Population

submitted by mauz15

1 decade 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

If the rest of the world were to live and use as much resources as America, we would require about 4 more planet Earths.

3 Comments

mauz15

says...

Full interview here:
http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/9747

Diogenes says...

certainly an interesting point...

upon reflection, it's likely that the same comparison can be made for most if not all "first-world" nations

as a very simple example of this, let's assume two things: that oil consumption A. increases in a first-world nation as population increases, and B. increases in proportion to the total developed land area of a first-world nation...

comparing both the total population and daily oil consumption of two large first-world nations, say the united states and canada, would have one barrel of oil per day supporting 14.7 people of the former and 14.6 people of the latter, respectively

my guess is that ed was using his particular analogy because he was addressing an american audience, rather than singling out the united states for (more) global disdain