On: 22 years of job creation wiped out in a day

[gravitycop]

consider the acres per person that the American lifestyle requires.

Progressively less over time. http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR2...

If Americans, engaged in their current lifestyles, constituted the entire 6.7 billion head population of the world, less land would be required than is required today.

[alecco → gravitycop]

That is just personal space, not the whole system to support it.

[gravitycop → alecco]

That is just personal space

No, it is all of the required space. Most of the linked page regards farming space. Did you read it?