Prison cells in the United States are usually 70 sq ft and include running water, but generally speaking prisons in the US don't have private cells and its a barrack type situation, so generally amenities like showers, toilets, kitchens, yards, all of that is shared. If you were to look at the military its common for beds to be shared on ships and submarines due to space restrictions.
What I'm getting at is "what is the absolute minimum of personal space that should be considered a human right?" Is it none and we should try to promote communal living spaces or is there an actual number for how much sq ft is a human right? Should everyone have a private toilet/shower/fridge/stove/television/ect?
Is there a line to be drawn on this issue or should no line be drawn? Is personal space something we should be measuring objectively or subjectively?
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I might be wrong, but I think I heard once that if the entire human population of the world stood completely pressed against each other (in a "sardines in a can" scenario), they would fit, with room to spare, on the Danish island of Bornholm. Which is 588.36 km2 (227.17 sq mi). Our issue really isn't a lack of space, as you say.
For 7B people to have 700sqft of living space each, you need about 5Tsqft of residential floorspace. The US alone has about 235Bsqft currently, so it's not an unbelievable number. If you assume that these housing units are stacked say 5 stories high, that means only
5T sqft1T of actual land is needed.That's about
180,000 square miles or roughly the area of France36,000 square miles or roughly the size of Portugal to house everyone in a decent sized apartment.deleted by creator