Comment by lenkite
5 hours ago
In 2010, Africa’s total population was estimated at about ~1.07 billion.
By 2025, the population is estimated at roughly ~1.53 billion.
That means the continent has seen an increase of abou 450-500 million people over merely 15 years! (~44% increase!)
No wonder the forests are disappearing. Without strict birth control and population planning, things will continue to become worse.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314546723_Populatio...
PS: Projected population is over 2.5 billion by 2050!
> Without strict birth control and population planning
Education, financial security, and personal liberty are actually proven to work… but they also result in economic gains for the state and increased QoL for the populace, so literally anything else I guess…
> Education, financial security, and personal liberty are actually proven to work
When numbers are being added at the rate of several hundred million in a decade, none of those can work and most especially when your religion is a major impediment.
How do you plan on "educating, providing financial security and personal liberty" for multi-billion people in Africa yearly ? The rest of the world is not going to sign up for that.
Anyone arguing for “strict birth control” must answer why it has to be applied to “those other people over there” instead of applying to the people who are responsible for the most energy use per capita.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/energy-consumpt...
Then you will agree that by having China stepping in to raise the standard of living across the whole developing world, we can expect a significant reduction in the drive to have children by impoverished and uneducated populations in africa and elsewhere as basic utilities and services become normal.
China is a nation state that absolutely looks out for themselves first and foremost. They will invest as long as it is profitable for them and they can gain land and benefits. They are not supplying free food and education to Africa. Incidentally, much maligned Russia was the nation who did so free for nearly 2 years when Africa was in trouble.
china is stepping in with access to technology, products like cell phones solar panels and infastructure, roads, rail, shipping ports, education programs, special trading zones where ANYBODY can show up in china, by ship and buy wholsale, no questions asked, medical equipment, etc ,etc, China is giving nothing away....except huge margins , which in China are honed to hard razor sharp edges, plus the fuckers are crazy, they will let you! set the price, and fight each other finding a way to deliver, africa and the rest of the devolping world is loving this, real oportunity, a chance to compete,and establish supply chains, that go BOTH WAYS, completly unlike the exploitive resource extraction models still bieng imposed by colonial countrys