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Whether a place is habitable or not is very subjective. If there is something of value such as oil or precious metals or other mineral resources, there are people who will move to hostile environments for economic reasons. If you want to estimate how much percent of a country is habitable, you can look up how much arable land it has. If land is arable, it follows that it is habitable. File:Arable land percent world.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whether a place is habitable or not is very subjective. If there is something of value such as oil or precious metals or other mineral resources, there are people who will move to hostile environments for economic reasons. If you want to estimate how much percent of a country is habitable, you can look up how much arable land it has. If land is arable, it follows that it is habitable. File:Arable land percent world.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These days food can be transported, so arable land is not essential to be habitable. If there is reason enough people can live anywhere, even Antarctica.
These days food can be transported, so arable land is not essential to be habitable. If there is reason enough people can live anywhere, even Antarctica.
^^^ Only costly expeditions live there. The temps are ~-100F! Greenland is a second coldest place on the planet. Who would want to "live" there?
In some places people can't live (mountains, desserts, volcano, jungle, very harsh climate, etc.) and when the land does not support them the cost of living will be horrendous.
Plus the cost of road infrastructure, electricity, water ...
^^^ Only costly expeditions live there. The temps are ~-100F!
In some places people can't live (mountains, desserts, volcano, jungle, very harsh climate, etc.) and when the land does not support them the cost of living will be horrendous.
Plus the cost of road infrastructure, electricity, water ...
Well yes high/rugged mountains.etc, polar climates, some deserts, although people do live in jungles (either hunter gatherers or if they clear it) and many deserts. Although wetter than now, I think early Mesopotamia was still pretty arid, as was Egypt, and settlement was possible because of the rich river valleys which were often utilised for irrigation.
el nina (the moderator) explains that less than 50% of the earth landmass is habitable.
Therefore I have a question : if man doesn't manage to inhabit half of this planet, how come some
"geniuses" like Stephen Hawking want to send us colonize the planets of the solar system, certainly much less hospitable than Antarctica even? talk of skewed thinking.
In 1900, Dade County Florida was a malarial swamp with a population of 4,955, and now has 2.5 million.
In 1900, Clark County Nevada was a waterless desert, an uninhabited part of Lincoln County, which itself had 3,281 people. Clark County now has just under 2-million.
Urumqi, China, now over 3-million, was a remote way-station on the silk road caravan routes a century ago.
Manaus, Brazil, 2-million people living in the middle of a jungle 1,000 km from the nearest road.
Oahu, a million people living on a tiny island 20 miles long, thousands of miles from the nearest mainland.
In the 1960s, the Yemeni island of Socotra, as big as New York's Long Island, was still uninhabited, as it had always been since antiquity. Now it has 42,000 people.
I believe all these countries are at least 50% uninhabitable... Asia+Oceania: Yemen, Oman, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Laos, Cambodia, Australia
In that 50% of Australia that you call uninhabitable, today people live, work in the mining and agriculture industries (e.g. low density cattle grazing) and even holiday https://www.google.com.au/search?q=y...=2559&bih=1246.
I think 90-95% of Egypt's land area is uninhabitable desert land.
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