what scales re: social sanity?

. . . so, rough approximations (with great variability) might go something like:

40 households in a neighborhood
(each neighborhood could have its own Common House for meals-sharing, recreational resources, etc.)

with 3.5 residents per household a neighborhood would comprise about 150 people
(150 people can be familiar with each other)

ten neighborhoods making up an ecovillage = 1500 people
(that’s enough for critical mass in many “localist” areas of life like communitarian education of the children, self-reliance in terms of basic maintenance of living infrastructure, etc.)

twenty villages (30,000) plus a town center (10,000) = 40,000 in a county
(a good-sized jurisdictional unit)

if a bioregion consisted of about 25 counties (there are 21 counties in my state, New Jersey) there would be around a million people in a bioregion
(each could be 95% self-sufficient in regard to all life necessities … 5% dependent upon trade)

a world divided into a thousand bioregional units would have about a billion people

that’s enough human beings

let most of the world be “undeveloped”
wild and free