The Nimitz is one of our nation's largest aircraft carriers. It's flight deck is 1088 feet long and 252 feet wide. (It's not a perfect rectangle, so simply multiplying this length and width gives an area somewhat bigger than the true size.) It's actual crew is 5700, but if it had the same population density that the earth has in real life, how many people would be on it? Give it your best guess before you read on.
That's right, not quite one whole person. The earth has about
seven acres
of land per person (that's just land, not water, and not
counting Antarctica).
The Nimitz' deck is less than six acres.
One person on an entire aircraft carrier is the desperate overcrowding
that so concerns the population control activists. And their solution
to this problem? Why, to start throwing people overboard, of course.
Starting with the unborn, through
abortion.
An easy prediction to make
is that their next proposal will be to get rid of some of the "useless"
elderly or seriously ill through
euthanasia.
Posted 10 Sep 2000.
Since we published the first draft of this article, many
anti-populationists have objected that we are being simplistic.
There is much more to the issue than simple "standing room".
The funny thing about this objection is that it is they
who brought up this analogy, not us. If comparing the earth to
an overcrowded lifeboat is a meaningless, irrelevant comparison, then
why do they use it regularly? It wasn't until we actually did the
simple math and showed that the analogy favors our side and not
theirs that they suddenly decided it was a dumb idea to begin with.
But more to the point, it is quite true that there are other
facets to the debate besides standing room -- and we address them in
other articles.
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