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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CalvinFold" data-source="post: 3752678" data-attributes="member: 119570">Since we'll be using less land for actual production of food, your plan to compact humans into a smaller place is certainly one idea to offset that. But at present, it would be like an urban monad...no thanks.And you'd have to write-off the USA in this scheme; we can't seem to figure out culturally how to respect our neighbors when living in close quarters. Ask any apartment, condo, or even townhome dweller how well being elbow-to-elbow with your neighbors works.Even cities with alot of practice with this (like NY, NY) are far from ideal living conditions. The places where it does "work" seem to have such a regimented culture than any USA citizen would have a mental breakdown even trying (i.e., parts of Southeast Asia).Not that I am advocating urban sprawl mind you, but I can see why it happens and works that way right now.Personally, I also think it's unnatural (as in "goes against nature") for animals to live in compressed spaces like dense urban centers; and we're animals, in the end. Especially for primates and creatures near the top of the food chain (depending on how you choose to bestow that honor). We need space and in the end suffer for the lack of it, both physically and mentally (fair bit of study in this area).</blockquote>