Humans are so few.

Earth, named after the soil on the planets surface. 

There are many things in our world that need attention. Things that are not true, things that one can wonder if they are a part of som kind of conspiracy. I am not much of a believer in conspiracy theories, to me they most often just seem quite silly. But there is one thing.

The number of humans on this planet. How many are we now? Today is Tuesday the 27 of mars 2018 and the estimate is 7.611.072.000 humans on the planet.  This planet named by us as Earth. The general idea is that that is a lot, that the world is over populated, that we are far to many humans living on the planet. That we should be a lot less, that this outrageous number of people is wrong and we have completely derailed when it comes to making new babies. 

Well actually this is false, this is wrong. I was born in 1958 and I remember my school years in the beginning of the 70'ties, during that time the general consensus was that the population explosion on the planet was harmful and needed to be stopped. This idea was taught in school, broadcasted on television, talked about in all debates and seen as an axiom. 

So where would 7.611.072.000 people fit, what kind of number is that, what country would we need to give every single one of us humans a room to live. Well we could place all the rooms side by side, but say - if we built towers like Burj Khalifa, 828 meter high 164 floors, we could very nice fit all humans in a smal country like Denmark and still have lots of space left for gardens and so on. Well I do not propose this to be realistic, just taking this as an example.

By now 03:09 the population is up into 7.611.075.000 humans living on Earth. So say how big a room would we get if we put all the rooms side by side in Denmark? And I tell you, it is not a very big country, very very nice and the people are fantastic but not very big. Denmark have 43.560.000.000 m² divided by 7.611.075.000 gives 5,723 m², not a very big room, but you will fit. So all of humankind do fit in a small country like Denmark. Not practically possible but...

Denmark is full - and the rest of the entire world is empty of humans. If you travel you will see that the reality is, most of the planet is empty of people as it is now. The reason it seems like we are so many is simply that people like to travel where other people lives. So we get together. We get the feeling there are people everywhere but that is just because we stick together. Really there is a lot of lot of lot of space for everyone. 

So what is the problem? Resources. With the way we live we are not able to give everyone a brand new car, a new telephone every year, a television set, a gigantic house, and all the other things we crave to fill our empty lives with. We use far more resources then the planet have with the way we live. We would need five or six planets filled with minerals and other stuff to be able to live the way we do now for any length of time. So we have a limited time to live like this - or most of the people will have to do without.

Ah - that is a good idea, and ops, already done. Only the rich people in the early industrialised world, Europe, the US have those things - or were alone to have. So game change if we are to survive an apocalyptic retreat into a dark age. What is the answer? I myself think people have to become politicians, (the word politics coming out of Greek meaning to build a city), we need to engage in how to build the world we live in, in a sustainable way, and we need to become gardeners.