Tag: overpopulated
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Day Three Hundred Sixty, January 17, 2012
I used to live in New York City and always thought: too many people, too little space, overcrowded, claustrophobic. And then I moved to China. It is quite difficult to describe in words and even in photos the amount of space people have to fit their lives inside of in a city like Shanghai. It…
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Day Eighty Eight, April 20, 2011
Almost 1.4 billion humans live in China. This is almost 20% of the whole world population. It baffles the mind to think of it. I come from a tiny country of 4 million so these numbers take a lot of getting used to. There is so little space allotted to the majority of Shanghai’s 18…