Is Africa The Biggest Threat to the World, and What should be Done about it?

[maracho]

Absolutely, you should employ critical thinking evenly and be consistent on all issues, constantly checking bias.




Population explosion affects every inhabitant on this earth directly or indirectly. Everyone needs to be part of the solution.

Why you want the Hitleresque making decisions? Is it because youre an Obamatheist like Anthony Bourdaine?

[D4thincarnation]

A Tale of Two Stories...

Amazing, the people that bang on about climate change the most are the most silent on this issue and even promoting the opposite.

[Theodore]

This is identity politics in a nutshell. It's basically "you're not color X, so you don't get to discuss color X issues..." even though color X issues will affect color Ys.

Rahm Emmanuel, the current Mayor of Chicago and Obama's former Chief of Staff, basically said that certain communities have to look within themselves and ask if their cultural values and lack of family values are contributing to the murders and out of control crime in Chicago. You know what's the response? Those community leaders called him a racist and said he cannot speak about those issues because he's not of the same race. Figures.

Same thing with the British Muslim community that has a much higher level of sexual and child abuse than other communities in the UK, those community leaders shut down the conversation real quick and used the race card.

I say fuck them.

[The Big Dunn]

Some theorize the larger, younger African population favors economic growth far more than a declining population of older working adults and elderly that require society to take care of them. Perhaps the population boom could be a positive, with the proper support, which is why China seems to be investing so heavily in Africa.

So the problem is not just about population control. You need to bring down fertility rates but there is a need to create jobs through developing more agriculture to feed everyone and planning and building cities to house everyone. Obviously institutions like government, education and health need to be improved as well.

[GhostofDempsey]

The problem in Africa is that third world countries are too easily corrupted. Not to say that developed nations like U.S., Russia, Germany, etc don't have their own corruption, but poor countries tend to stay poor regardless of who is in power. Birth control is non-existent over there, so they continue to squeeze out kids they can't feed at an alarming rate. And then they want to storm the borders of European nations for sanctuary so they can turn those nations into the shytholes they abandoned in the first place.

[D4thincarnation]

Some theorize the larger, younger African population favors economic growth far more than a declining population of older working adults and elderly that require society to take care of them. Perhaps the population boom could be a positive, with the proper support, which is why China seems to be investing so heavily in Africa.

So the problem is not just about population control. You need to bring down fertility rates but there is a need to create jobs through developing more agriculture to feed everyone and planning and building cities to house everyone. Obviously institutions like government, education and health need to be improved as well.

The facts doesn't seem to bear fruit.

Once a society civilizes the birth rate drops off, and they begin to prosper.

[D4thincarnation]

The problem in Africa is that third world countries are too easily corrupted. Not to say that developed nations like U.S., Russia, Germany, etc don't have their own corruption, but poor countries tend to stay poor regardless of who is in power. Birth control is non-existent over there, so they continue to squeeze out kids they can't feed at an alarming rate. And then they want to storm the borders of European nations for sanctuary so they can turn those nations into the shytholes they abandoned in the first place.

It is staggering the population rise in the next 80 years.

Already it is too much and in 80 years the population will be 4 times what is now an extra 3.8 billion.

[jreckoning]

It is staggering the population rise in the next 80 years.

Already it is too much and in 80 years the population will be 4 times what is now an extra 3.8 billion.

I've read plenty of places unless something dramatic happens in the next 30 to 40 years there will be not enough food nor arable land to feed the population that will exist.

Scary.

[D4thincarnation]

I've read plenty of places unless something dramatic happens in the next 30 to 40 years there will be not enough food nor arable land to feed the population that will exist.

Scary.

People will compete over limited resources, which means war.

People in safe countries will argue over what we should do.

People will be desperate to get out, hordes crossing borders illegally, unrest in population.


This story does not end well unless Africa can cut is birth rate by two thirds immediately and that isn't happening.

[Larry the boss]

What a stupid thread....wow people are being born..lets cry about it