X-Message-Number: 10329 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:18:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: Population Density vs. Cryonics > objection seemed to be over- population. Since the Netherlands have the > highest population density of any country in the world (I feel pretty > claustrophobic when I go there), that may well be na most obvious > explanation why there seems to be no one there who wants to get even close > to this topic. Or maybe not. England has a high population density (not to be confused with the lower averaged population density of Great Britain), yet England is the only place other than the US where cryonics facilities exist. Japan, where cryonics has been viewed with some interest, has an average of 32,600 square feet per person, only slightly more than the Netherlands 23,600 square feet per person. When you take into account that about half of the Japanese land area is uninhabitable because it is so mountainous, I think the effective (perceived) population density is greater than that of the Netherlands. Finally, Hong Kong has a population density more than 10 times that of the Netherlands, and Monaco is also more densely populated; but I don't know what attitudes are to cryonics in those countries. I suspect that objections to cryonics on grounds of overpopulation may correlate better with liberal guilt than current population density; but of course it's all guesswork. My figures for population density are averaged from the Cambridge Fact Book and Merriam Webster's World Atlas. --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10329