If Earth's Entire Population Lived in a Single Skyscraper
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s imagine housing every single person on Earth in one giant skyscraper. A building big enough for all eight billion of us doesn't exist yet, so we'd have to build it from the ground up.
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Timeline
00:00:Living in the Same Skyscraper
00:58:Thanks Better Internet!
02:16:Iceland
02:54:Australia
03:27:United Kingdom
04:02:Philippines
04:36:Mexico
05:16:The U.S.
06:20:India
07:28:The Earth Tower