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TEUN VAN SAMBEEK |
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| 27 February 2026 |
Why We Don't Grasp The Size Of The Earth
When I got my first economy lesson in high-school, I expected that we would start with context. Context like: How many people are there in the world? How much available farmland do we have? How much money is there in the world? Who decides when to create more money or reduce the money supply? What is the total value of the available real estate. But instead of getting context, we started with price elasticity curves and GDP numbers. Without context, economy doesn't make sense.
The biggest lie that we were told, was that the natural resources are finite, that many resources are almost depleted and that our consumption is destroying the planet. There a 4 main reasons why it is so important for the victors, to make people believe that the people are responsible for the supposed destruction of the ecosystems of the planet:
To Create Arguments For A Global Government
To Make Civilians Accept Limited Access To Resources
To Move You From The Rural Areas To The Cities
To Keep Nature Exclusive For The Victors.
Garbage
Because most people live in crowded cities where nature is being destroyed and garbage piles up and spoils any park or canal, people see the devastation of remaining natural elements every day. This makes them actually believe the narrative about people destroying the planet. The media also constantly focuses on any environmental disaster they can find. Every day you will be reminded of the destruction of nature and wildlife. Especially kids are told in school about the horrific destructing habits of their parents. The indoctrination on this point is absolutely massive.
Without proper education, it is very difficult to see how big earth is, how scarcely it is populated and how vast the resources are that we can use. Next to that, it is also clear that in a world – where access to vital resources (food, water, housing, clothing, healthcare and information) is made artificially scarce – people have no choice than to focus on obtaining those primal necessities first, before spending time on cleaning their environment. It is also no coincidence that there always is a shortage of funding for waste collection systems and proper sewage systems. When we are confronted with filth every day, it makes us believe that the entire world is covered with garbage and that it is a “normal feature” of humans to leave a mess behind.
To make people understand – that their influence on nature and climate borders to complete insignificance – we first need to teach people the unbelievable massive size of the earth. Only once you understand the size, you will be able to see the almost endless abundance of natural resources. Resources that can elevate all people out of their poverty with ease and enable them to use their time and resources to clean up their direct environment.
Obviously very rare animals exist that humans can locate and hunt down. Think about rhinos, tigers, gorillas, whales, orangutans, condors and many others. There are also many precious wildlife areas with rain-forest or vast original and important Eco-systems that are being damaged. There should be no doubt that we need to put an extreme amount of effort to protect those animals and these habitats. But even when we do so, the amount of remaining natural resources is so vast, that the number of humans could increase with a factor 10 without significant impact. Especially when we use the abundance of resources to clean up our own mess and start working on real scientific sustainability.
Numbers About The Size Of The EarthIf we can believe the United Nations and the World-O-Meter, then the world population at the writing of this book should be around 8,243,000,000 people and is growing with about 0.85% per year with an estimated peek of about 10,3 billion people in 2080. There are a lot of reasons to question these numbers because the victors use the exponential population growth numbers (they present between the years of 1900 and 2050) to create fear to make people to accept their agendas, so the victors can keep their power. There is already hard proof that especially the Chinese population is much less than presented due to their 1 child policy.
UN World Population Estimates Before And After 2025
The earth consists of 149 million km2 landmass.
149,000,000,000,000 m2 / 8,240,000,000 persons ≈ 18,000 m2 per person (4.45 acres).
√18,000 ≈ 134m so every living person represents a square piece of 134 x 134 m1 of land.
18,000 m2 per person (4.45 acres)
Here some other numbers related to the size of the earth:
Food
When you assume people living in families of 5 people, every family could have a farm of 90,000 m2 (which is 9 Ha or 22.2 Acres per family). You can assume that about 50% of the land that the earth has to offer is habitable and usable for farming. The family would need 0.5% of their land for bread. About 5% of the available land is needed to provide the family 1 chicken per day. Less than 5% of the available land is needed to provide the family two kg of pork per day. The amount of farmland needed to feed one person every day varies dramatically, ranging from (much) less than a quarter of an acre (1,000 m2) for a vegetarian diet, to between 1-2 acres (4,000m2 to 8,000m2) for a meat-heavy diet. For homesteaders 20,000 m2 (5 acres) provides enough space for a larger garden, a modest orchard, and a small assortment of livestock like goats, sheep, and pigs. It is a manageable size for a single family without requiring a lot of large-scale equipment. This is however in case every family would start farming on their own, we discard fishing and we are all on quite meat intensive diets. If we would reach 10,3 billion people, we would still only use 13.8% of the available land for our food production. If we promote the enormous variety in traditional (food) cultures, we will not only increase the “abundance” of choices, but will also help to increase the sustainability of the food production.
Housing
If you would build a city that contains only 4 story apartments in blocks of 48 2-Bedroom units, you could house about 190 people on 4,000 m2 (one acre) of land. If you would extrapolate that to the entire world population, you would need a city of the size of 175,000 km2 (67,500 miles2).
The 2 billion apartments you would have to build, would cost about US$ 15,000 each, which means that with 30 trillion dollar, you should be able to house the entire world population in proper apartments. To compare: Some sources indicate that the overall costs of the Afghan War were as high as US$ 14 Trillion. Enough to house half of the world population – without a mortgage! Only that fact gives a clear indication that scarcity is artificial and has been the preferred choice of the victors all along. Anything less than an “Abundomy” should therefore be unacceptable.
The Size Of The World
Africa’s landmass compared to the area that can house the entire current world population in an urban setup not exceeding 4 stories (red) and the farmland to feed this entire current world population (green)
The rest of the world would have no humans nor farmland.
Soil
If everyone was able to excavate 500 m1 under their portion of the soil, every person would have 9 million m3 (11.8 million yard3) of natural resources that are undiscovered.
Water
The amount of ocean water equals to 162 million m3 /person, or 212 million yards3 /person.
Air
There is 790 million m3 (1,03 billion yard3) of air per person.
Coal (use)
The use of coal is a cube of: 0.34 x 0.34 x 0.34 m1. (1.41feet3) /person/day. This is 1,140,000,000 joules /person /day. About 40% of coal is used to produce electricity that is used for houses and industries.
Oil (use)
Oil use is about 1.71 liter (0.45 US gallon) /person /day, which is 65,700,000 joules /person /day.
Gas (use)
The use of natural gas is 1,32 m3 /person /day, which is 49,200,000 joules /person /day.
The Sun Versus Coal/Oil/Gas
Per person per day the sun deposits 873 GJ on the earth. Next to that, it is estimated that the total geothermal heat flux from Earth's interior, is about 463 MJ per person per day. Per person 1.25 GJ per day are produced by coal/oil/gas. This means that the sun produces 700 times more energy as humans produce and that geothermal heat alone is already about 37% of all energy that is produced by humans.
Electricity (use)
Global electricity use is about 8.3 kWh per person per day. A solar panel produces: 1.3 kWh per panel per day. This means that the average person would need 6.4 Solar panels to replace all current electricity use.
Nuclear Weapons
When we add the explosive power of all nuclear weapons, we arrive at about 0.1 m3 of TNT per person. All nuclear weapons together can generate the same amount of energy as about 17 kg crude oil per person. To compare: A full solar eclipse’s reduces the energy on earth by a factor that is about 60 times bigger than the energy that is added by exploding all nuclear bombs.
It is obvious that the stupidity of creating nuclear weapons is beyond comprehension. We however also need to remember that the victors seem to have no problems with lying about anything as long as people remain in fear. Propping up a doomsday weapon fits really nice in the victors tactics. The story about a nuclear winter seems to complete nonsense.
Abundomy As A Science
Our building stones are the abundance of natural resources. I would like to ask other scientist to expand on “the inventory and usage”. What other important natural resources should we add, measure and make transparent to our community? The better we describe this context, the better we can do simulations to challenge the strength of the design of the "Abundomy" and turn it into a proper science.
27 February 2026
Teun van Sambeek MSc, MRE
Creator of Abundomy Money
