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Re:The Case for Making Humans Smaller by vacri on Sunday November 15, 2015 @06:50AM (#10569353)
The problem isn't physically occupying space, it's resource consumption. Humans themselves don't consume much space in total - the entire 2010 population could 'stand on zanzibar', as the book title predicted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar#Title
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Re:The Case for Making Humans Smaller by cromulent on Sunday November 15, 2015 @09:16AM (#10569652)
Yes exactly. The current population would fit into a 1km sided cube.

Volume of a human = 67 l [1]

Double this for packing errors = 134 l = .134 ㎥

.134 x 7.13 billion = 955,000,000 ㎥

< 1 ㎦

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+human+being

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