Nigeria will have +700M people in 2100

[KaiserWilly]

If you believe this

The UN predicts the world's population explosion: visualised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[gingerjedi]

And the world population will hit 7,000,000,000 around about 31/10/2011 according to R4 programme the other day.

The population only reached 1Bn in 1800 so doomed etc.

[TiroFijo]

If you believe this

The UN predicts the world's population explosion: visualised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

That's a lot of poor people.
Sterilize them after one child.

[Mich the Tester]

If you believe this

The UN predicts the world's population explosion: visualised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It won't. The population of Nigeria is becoming more and more urbanised. People in cities have less children than people in the country, all over the world, regardless of culture or religion. In fact, many urban populations in 3rd world countries have a similar birth rate to rich 'western' countries.

Believe me, I know something about this stuff. I just can't be arsed to write a textbook about spatial demography and intranational migration here on CUK for people who can use google to find out for themselves.

[PAH]

People in cities have less children than people in the country, all over the world, regardless of culture or religion.

So the answer is more destruction of nature. May as well concrete over the fecking lot of it.

[SimonMac]

I don't think its gonna be an issue as the death rate is so high, the number of emails I get every day about someone's unclaimed estate from Nigeria, each with a different name is ridiculous

[Mich the Tester]

So the answer is more destruction of nature. May as well concrete over the fecking lot of it.

Not necessarily. Cities will grow, but outside of them there'll be more space for nature AND agriculture as rural communities shrink. There are also interesting projects in the urban agriculture field; I know a chap who's working on that in Amsterdam and it looks quite promising.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't think its gonna be an issue as the death rate is so high, the number of emails I get every day about someone's unclaimed estate from Nigeria, each with a different name is ridiculous

Yeah sorry mate, I pressed 'send' 16 times; must have been pissed at the time!

[PAH]

rural communities shrink

There's a dwindling of decent country pubs as it is. This progression must not be tolerated.

There are also interesting projects in the urban agriculture field.

Turfing roofs to grow stuff in whilst also acting as natural insulation?

Always thought thatched roofs fell short of the optimal solution.

[Mich the Tester]

There's a dwindling of decent country pubs as it is. This progression must not be tolerated.

There never were very many in Nigeria anyway.