Total bioproductive land per person is 4.7 acres
Summary
- Apparently there are 28.2 billion acres of bioproductive land on earth (minus oceans, deserts, ice caps and built up land).
- Divide by 6 billion people = 4.7 acres.
Details
- Of course, this does not count the land needed by wild animals
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Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy,4 states that there are 28.2 billion acres of bioproductive land on Earth — the total surface area minus the deep oceans, deserts, icecaps and built-up land.When divided between six billion people, each person gets a 4.7-acre share —we'll call this area each person's “personal planetoid.”