Yep! You really have to cross-check these statistics and percentages they throw around to justify their articles, these days. Often, they're misleading or just plain wrong.

If anything, we have some problems with the particular lands they're choosing to terraform. For example, we know they're chopping down the tropical rainforest at a rapid pace -- and there's a lot of habitat there that probably can't survive anyplace else. Plus, losing that many trees can't be good either.

But there's also a whole lot of "wide open space" on the planet that I imagine a lot of these studies are blanket-labeling as "occupied by humans" simply because someone has ownership. Throughout much of America, you definitely see this with huge swaths of farmland. It's only "populated" in the sense farmers are growing crops on it. But it's not like we're packing families into new housing developments all over it and paving it with concrete and asphalt.