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Human footprint maps
Trailer trash and Nature Nazis I'm no farmer but even if I was, I'd be VERY peeed if offroaders were screwing up my plowed fields that I use to... Trailer trash Not a bad troll.... I am in the woods year round and see idiots in all manners of vehicles and modes of transportation. That doesn't mean all the people... R. Lander Pretty pictures you've got there but pretty much useless without the legend of what the colors actually mean. Looking at you pretty coloring book would have us believe that almost the entire eastern US is literally covered in people. Your world map is no different. What do the color graduations signify? Let's take India for example, you CAN pick it out without resorting to a world atlas can't you? Based on colors alone one might believe that India is absolutely covered in humanity, and population numbers might lead you to think the same thing. After all, their population is right on a par with China at around 2 billion souls, give or take a few hundred million. The thing is, I've BEEN to India and I've seen a fair portion of it, and while the cities themselves can be absolutely crawling with people, the biggest hunk of the country is pretty much free of significant numbers of them. What would you get I would look for as stock a vehicle as I could find. Vehicles that have been modified and lifted are normally driven to the... The US is approximately 3.5 million square miles with a population of approximately 75 million people which works out to about 78 people per square mile. A fair number of those are actually concentrated in the major cities so that makes their density greater, but the density of the rest of the country less. I'm betting a fairly substantial portion of the city folk never get any closer to nature than the zoo and local water park, so their impact on the environment is minimal, not counting the emissions from their mini-vans. Their indirect impact based on resources used in their behalf and what-not might be a bit harder to judge, but unless you're willing to be the first in line to be euthanized to minimize the impact to poor mother earth I'd suggest you shut up about population issues. What would you get This is kinda a loaded question. If lift and big tires are your game you might look for a nice 87 or eariler GM truck (1-2 or 3-4 ton) or about the same... There are about 4 million miles of roads in the US. For the sake of argument lets say 1 mile of road for every square mile of real estate in the country. If you laid them all end to end and side by side...well, you should get the picture. A road isn't all that wide compared to a mile of real estate is it? I'd guess the real estate is about, ohhh, 5,200 feet and change wider. IOW the overall impact of a road, on the land, is pretty negligible. And besides which, what is your point? Do you seriously think there is anything, short of total global sterilization, that man can do to this planet that is going to make any kind of lasting impact? Man, and whatever impact we might have is going to be less than blip on the radar that is the life cycle of this planet.
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