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catastrophe in Africa?

Posted in agriculture, climate change, economic justice, failed states, population pressure, sustainability on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Paul Chefurka in Africa in 2040: The Darkened Continent:
All in all, the future of Africa is beyond grim when one looks out just a decade or two. Declining food production, rising food prices, shrinking economic activity and a continuation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic paint a picture of human distress that is beyond endurance.
The scale [...]

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Kenya: Violence and Population Pressure

Posted in failed states, population pressure on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

See the op-ed in the IHT by Gunnar Heinsohn, a sociologist with the Raphael Lemkin Institute for Comparative Genocide Research at the University of Bremen.
Between 1950 and 1985, Kenya’s total fertility rate (children per woman’s lifetime) hovered around eight. In 2007, each Kenyan woman still gave birth to an average of 5 children (compared to [...]

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