Or if we imagine the New York City metropolitan area, currently home to 12 million people, but 12 million people in the future, perhaps living at the density of Manhattan, in only 36 percent of the area, with the areas in between covered by farmland, covered by wetlands, covered by the marshes we need.
もしくは 現在１千２百万人が暮らす ニューヨークの大都市圏が― 将来的にはこの全人口がマンハッタンのわずか36%の 地域に密集するでしょう ― 農地に囲まれ 必要な湿地に覆われた 地域になると想像したら？