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A White House aide to Hillary says earth is topped off .  We have reached the maximum occupancy that God posted on a mountain somewhere, and we're going to have problems if the interplanetary fire marshal stops by.  Are you ready for the scary part of the story? "We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people," Fedoroff said. In 2012, we'll cross the 7 billion mark .  Okay, I'm horrible at math, but let's see if we can come up with some solutions that don't require us to implement China's communist birthing policies. Let's say the population will be so dense in 2012 everyone will have to live in a 35-square-foot sized cubicle . Multiplying those cubicles by 7 billion people brings us to 245,000,000,000 square feet .  Let's make that more meaningful. If there are 27,878,400 square feet in a square mile, and we divide them into the number of square feet taken up by ...