Originally Posted by Axiom
Do the math !
Earth SA = 4 Pi r^2
=4*3*5000(km)^2
3/4 salt water, remaining land 1/4 desert and 1/4 ice.
= about 6 billon hectares
= about a football field each.
Just imagine if our beloved science could make the whole of australia inhabitable ? oh gosh .
Imagine that if you like, but science cannot get blood out of a stone.
Currently we use a Joule of energy (petro/nuke/hydro) to produce a Joule of food. It takes another Joule to transport it to Texas. One energy crisis and most of the 10,000,000,000 new Texans would be eating each other.