Halloween and Morbid Thoughts
October 8th, 2006
The future of cemeteries looks grim. UN population estimates are 6.5 billion living today. If we assume 50% of people will be buried in a cemetery and use a 4×6 foot plot, then 78 billion square feet of land will be used. As 27,848,400 square feet are in a mile square, this equates to a little less than 2,800 square miles of land used, almost twice the land area of Rhode Island. Furthermore, these values only reflect a static population number of 6.5 billion and not an evolving population demographic. Even in death, we humans have a tremendous impact on this world.
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