(1) The big story will be Africa
Right now, with a couple of exceptions, Africa’s population density is relatively low; it’s a very big continent more sparsely populated than, say, Europe or East Asia. That’s changing very quickly. The continent’s overall population is expected to more than quadruple over just 90 years, an astonishingly rapid growth that will make Africa more important than ever.
And it’s not just that there will four times the workforce, four times the resource burden, four times as many voters. The rapid growth itself will likely transform political and social dynamics within African countries and thus their relationship with the rest of the world. (More on this further down.)
Africa has not changed much in all it’s history. Imagine people living in mud huts in this day and age. It is their gov’ts they have that keep them living like the socialists/dictators want them too.
Africa: The Failed Continent
There is no need for us to wonder what is wrong with Africa.
We have experienced African leadership ourselves.....
so much for the population depleting AIDS epidemic
But why do I think it not a UN prediction. .it a UN agenda..a prophecy they intend to see gets fulfilled
At the very end of the article he mentions: "And that's the story of the world's demographic future, nine decades of population booms and declines that will have unforeseeable but surely transformative political and economic consequences.
When you add tribalism and the problem if food production hampered by corruption and governmental incompetence, my guess is that his projections "ain't gonna happen!"
Yeah, the only thing we need to do is pay “reparations”, maybe by means of a “Global Warming” tax on rich nations in order to launder welfare payments to third world nations through the U.N.
That should fix everything.
Africa has been The Next Big Thing since 1960.
According to all those alarmist paperback books by "renowned" scientists, experts and other over-educated twerps who were allergic to real work, we were all supposed to be dead by 1990, give or take.
Then along came skeptics/satirists like P.J. O'Rourke and Tom Wolfe, to make fun of them all and make their alarmist pronouncements seem silly. But that didn't stop them from getting Nobel prizes and Pulitzers for their dopey theories.
Wishful thinking from the We H8 Whitey crowd at WaPo.
Absent massive material aid from the exterior of Africa, they will end up living in thatched huts on meager food supplies as their population outruns the capability of their ‘societies’ to feed them.
They will resort to collectivist solutions run by Big Chief Strongmen like South America, ending in food shortages, panics, massacres and chaos.
Throw in intertribal hostility and you get 1000 Rwandas.
The population will thus self control through the usual evolutionary mechanisms.
How did their last 30 years of demographic predictions turn out?
Camp of the Saints comes to mind.
Sub-Saharan Africa is genetically defective. When genetic science catches up to empirical observations, Sub-Saharan Africans will be like Zombies in the gene pool.