Planned cities are always easier to plan.

Or yours, of course.

A purportedly sustainable manner.

Do you suppose anyone will actually live in this one?

Here's the thing.

"Even leaving aside the massive, huge ethical problems with abusing our fellow sentient creatures"

As long as most of the contestants die, this will be a great show.

Exaggerated and alarmist.

Look, if there was a giant ecological collapse, or a nuclear war, and the United States was destroyed, there would probably still be descendents of today's US citizens still living in North America in 400 years. That does not mean that America as a culture would still exist.

The Maya civilization is dead. That culture is gone.

Like I said, the culture is extinct. Ethnic descendents of the culture are still all over the place, but they are no more culturally "Mayan" than I am culturally "Roman".

Yeah, smoking is bad for you.

This happens fairly often.

Or we could just cut to the chase and fight overpopulation by putting people in actual coffins.

Aw. I was hoping for SPACE MADNESS!!!!!

Meh. We can refer to them any way we want, because they are all long dead (as a culture). Feel free to call them the Holt Roman Empire if you want, though you'll confuse people.

" there is this whole other world out there, where the people live who don't go online to bitch"

Wow.

Yeah, they are usually developing several.

"Great on a ton of levels" < actually great, or even good.