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Originally Posted by chris08876
The U.S. for the most part is quite sparse, almost rural one might say.
With some areas, minute you leave the suburbs, literally nothing. Starts to get empty real quick.
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Conceptually I disagree with you.
Sure, if your comparing the NYC megalopolis to Idaho.....ain't nobody there in Idaho.
But in reality there almost 1.8M people in Idaho.
Not exactly empty.
There's no need to clutter what remains of 'lower 48' wilderness with more people.
Its nice as it is.
It would be nicer still if areas like Appalachia could be returned to a similar state.
De-populate, make room for cougars, bears, snakes, eagles etc.
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Also the relative comparison of US density isn't what people make it out to be.
I googled a list of countries by population density and ordered it, from least dense to most.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...ies-by-density
The U.S. is the 59th least population dense country.
First is Greenland at less than 1 person per km2
Australia is #7 at 3 people per km2
Canada is #11 at 4 people per km2
Russian is #19 at 9 people per km2
Saudi Arabia is #25 at 19 people per km2
Argentina is the same at 19 people per km2
The U.S. is #59 at 35 people per km2
But that's deceptive as it includes Alaska.
The U.S is really closer to 40 per km2 (10x the density of Canada)