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		pault on March 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too I believe I once read that at the population density of Tokyo, every human on Earth could fit into the state of Texas. Whether that would be desirable is another question, but I imagine that a lot of our current environmental problems would go away with increased density.

rootusrootus on March 27, 2019 [–]

In the right ballpark but it would be about 4 billion people in Texas, which is roughly half the world's population.

On the other hand, at the density of Manila, you could fit the entire population of the planet into Ohio.

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