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Originally Posted by redpoint5
No, I expect Africa population growth to decline faster than predicted due to cultural and technological changes. There is a trickle down effect in standard of living as technology improves. Our homeless have cell phones, for instance. As Africans increasingly connect with the outside world, their culture and values will change.
Of course, I'm mindful of your prediction of decreasing per-capita wealth/resources, and that would depress the effects of change, so there's still risk of a slowing or halting of development in poor countries.
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They can have El Nino issues.The 1997-98 storm gave 'em tens of thousands of cholera cases.Tens of thousands of malaria cases.They had 89,000 Rift Valley Fever cases.Lots of parasites.Ebola is back right now.
Their glaciers are pretty much toast,so their long-term water storage is gone.
Last year,one of their South African major cities,Capetown, was within weeks of running their last water reservoir dry.
As a continent,they've been in a 5,000-year drought since 3,000 BC,when the African Humid Period ended.Lots of marginalized people.
In 1999,300,000 faced starvation in Dodoma Region from drought.
The Akkadian Empire collapsed in 2,200 BC after a 300-year drought.
All the Tibetan Plateau glaciers will be gone by 2100. There won't be an Indus,Brahmaputra,or Ganges Rivers,with nothing but drought in between monsoons.