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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 January 2014 02:31:18PM 2 points [-]

Fourth, overpopulation is pretty local. Taking the simplest possible measure of land area, it's hard to argue that countries like Russia or Canada or Australia are overpopulated.

There's a reason they don't have many people per square mile. It's really difficult to live in large parts of them.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 03:27:02PM 4 points [-]

Southern Siberia, for example, is pretty benevolent and pretty empty.