28 June 2007

We're all city boys now

Well nearly most of us anyway. Sometime next year more of the planet's population will live in cities than in the countryside with urban growth being most acute in sub-Saharan Africa.

What does this mean? Probably more hunger, more poverty and more disease. Climate change will also most heavily affect those living in urban areas so it is a good thing that it doesn't exist. (The preceding sentence has been brought to you by ExxonMobil - "better living through exploitation, deceit and truly obscene profits".)

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