It's Not A Small World, We Are Just Small People - Al Gore & Walt Disney's Plot

Interesting biased reasoning. Of course, what you neglect to point out is how much of the earth's surface those people jammed into the State of Washington would need to survive.

And how much of the earth's surface is polluted by the industrial by-products required to support their lifestyles.

So do excuse me, but I believe that your skepticism is more about trying to reduce the amount of time otherwise rational people would spend on real facts to concentrate on pseudo-facts than it is about any sort of facts that really add substantially to an understanding of our scale of human impact on this resilient but ultimately fragile and unique planet.

It is documented that Walt Disney was pretty anti-semitic

Well, to be fair, much of this "documentation" comes from a book which is pretty loose with facts.

I think there's more to it than "Disney was an anti-semite" though I wouldn't be surprised to find various opinions from anyone of that time that I wouldn't consider to be in poor taste.

Beyond that, I concur with Partisan Hack's reading of your article. If we're so insignificant, how to account for the Ozone depletion that humans were largely responsible for?

Great thoughts, SECTIM42; how can you resist the urge to go farther? Let's say we wanted, for a lark, to get all of humanity together one evening for a concert. Something green - Bono maybe. If you put a population of 6.6 billion people onto squares a yard on each side (for boogie room), you could fit us all into a space the size of Everglades National Park, with 100,000 acres to spare.

Another bit of perspective. If you accept that all of the recent increases in CO2 concentration are due to human activity, then we have raised the number of CO2 molecules in every 1,000,000 molecules of our atmosphere from 280 to 380. This is a change of one hundredth of one percent.

Those who think we will come up with new technologies to solve the rapid global warming problem we have triggered are mistaken - we are far less in control of this world as they think.

The current world population is 6.6 billion people. The most dense city in terms of population is Manilla with 41,014 people per square kilometer. What does this mean? We can fit the entire world population in the state of Washington. Or maybe better put, humans only take up .108% of all the land on the globe, or .032% of the entire globe (including bodies of water).

Where did you get this information from?

There have been a lot of opinions put forth on the subject.

I have yet to see this particular point of view

Do The Math !!

If you give all the worlds' billions one square yard of turf each to stand on.

There are 5280 feet in a mile, divide by 3, yields > 1,760yds. per mile.

For the sake of argument - the coast of California is 900 miles long.

1760 yds. per mile x 900 = a line that is 1,584,000 yards.

1,584,000 x 1760 yards wide = 2,787,840,000 sq. yds. > one mile wide, 900 miles long.

2,787,840,000 x 3 [ 3 miles wide, 900 miles long ] = 8,363,520,000 sq. yds

Eight Billion.......Three hundred-sixty three Million......Which is a number of [ living ] people not yet, and not likely to be reached in the world..

The ENTIRE WORLD POPULATION and then some fits on one, three mile wide strip of the coast of California !!!

Draw that line on a world map, and it does not amount to a hill of beans.

How big is that in comparison to the corn and wheat fields in American breadbasket states , The Ukraine, Canada , South America, Africa ????

The problem in this world is not overpopulation. It is simply improper utilization.

The Sixty-four Thousand dollar question, is how to rectify the problem, given world politics, and the obnoxiously selfish "me / mine first" attitude rampant on humanity.

Your turn.......................