ApocaDocs: Change beckons for billionth African

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Posted Tue Dec 29 2009: from London Guardian:


	Change beckons for billionth African http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1262105779 The baby's name and nationality are not known. The child will grow up innocent of having a place in history. But somewhere, this year, that child became the billionth person in Africa, the continent with the fastest growing population in the world. Climbing from 110 million in 1850, Africa's headcount reached this threshold in 2009, according to the United Nations, although patchy census data in many countries means that no one can say where or when. By 2050, the population is projected to almost double, to 1.9 billion. Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare. Yet optimists sense an opportunity to follow billion-strong China and India in pursuing economic growth.

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'Doc Michael says:

What do ya wanna bet it's the optimists who continue to reproduce.