One often hears of the demographic doom-and-gloom scenarios. The world’s population is rising at such a rapid rate that by some estimates by 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet, up from about 7 billion today. Yet some experts believe in a more optimistic state of affairs for the planet. Fred Pearce […]
At the World Economic Forum on Africa 2010that is underway in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, several participants – including both Africans and outsiders – have called for a rethinking of perceptions about the continent. Too much focus is placed on what is going wrong – disease, poverty, corruption, poor infrastructure, among other problems – with […]
In every region of the world, there are areas of severe water stress. Ten years ago, the Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel in Germany released a ranking of countries according to the percentage of territory where water consumption exceeded 40% of supply. The list was topped by Israel and Trinidad […]
