By 2100, there should be two cities, Lagos and Kinshasa, with over 80 million people. Lagos has an official government plan to support 40 million people by 2050. The largest African, South Asian and Indian cities will pass Tokyo’s population by 2050. China is integrating several multi-city regions into areas with over 100 million people. …
The UN has their latest world population projections. Overall Annual Global Deaths Will Double Over the Next 60 Years The overall level of absolute annual deaths will be increasing from 60 million per year to about 80 million by 2050 and 100 million by 2070. The annual global death rate will average an increase by …
Satellitemap.space has a real-time view of the Starlink low earth orbit satellite constellation. Each dot is a Starlink satellite. You can see how many are over any particular country or region. There are some string of dots. Those are recent launches that still have to move to their final positions. Starlink is currently serving mainly …
The Indian Delta Variant of COVID has over twice the transmission rate of the original COVID and is hitting parts of Asia and Africa that mostly avoided COVID in 2020. Brazil, India, Colombia and Argentina have the most COVID cases this week. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan will have a lot more cases in the coming weeks. …
Only eight African countries record their dead which means there are no good tracking of COVID or any other cause of death. Only Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles and Mauritius functioning, compulsory and universal civil registration systems (CRVS systems) which record deaths. The other countries have paper-based systems …
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has proposed a constitutional change to allow land seizures without payments. This will trigger conflict between the government and commercial farmers and the opposition. During apartheid land was taken from millions among the black majority. When Nelson Mandela took power in South Africa in 1994, 87 percent of the …
World Health Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Level 3 Emergency
Today people see the economic success of China and Asia and see the terrible poverty but many do not know that Africa was ahead of Asia for over a century in terms of per person wealth. Asia was at its worst in the early half of the 20th century with many wars and communist leadership …
Bill and Melinda Gates provided their 2019 annual report and describe how they can make the world better over the next few decades. Africa Can Be Fixed and Provide Growth for the World Sub-Saharan Africa has the opportunity to invest in its young people. This will enable Africa to double its share of the global …
There were some emails about my article about being able to feed 40 billion people with today’s agricultural productivity. Food, energy, water, and ecosystems are connected. The complexity of those systems is secondary. Why do people have large families? What is happening within countries that go from poor and breeding to wealthy and stabilized? Very …
Kenya will use the Alphabet X (Google) Loon high-speed internet balloons to provide internet to its rural population. Google Loon already provided internet to 250,000 people in Puerto Rico after the hurricane last year. There are 51 million people in Kenya but only 14 million are in cities. This means 37 million people are in …
