ARTICLE: "Mideast Facing Choice Between Crops and Water: Expensive Experiments; Global Shortages Push a Region to Rely Less on Food Imports," by Andrew Martin, New York Times, 21 July 2008, p. A1.
Stunningly cool map on jump page (print edition, obviously):
--Sub-Saharan Africa up 113 percent in population by 2050
--then MENA at 63 percent
--then Gap-heavy Oceania (SE Asia) at 41
--World avg at 36
--LATAM at 33
--North America at 30
--Asia at lowly 27
--Europe at stunning -9 percent (virtually all the downturn found in former Warsaw Pact countries and not West Europe, which grows more in US range).
Interesting that both Mexico and Canada grow at almost exact same rate as US. Says something about NAFTA, methinks.
Rest of LATAM grows much faster. Extend southward! Say I.
In general, though, you can spot the Gap outline clearly on the map: all the large positive-change circle bubbles indicating high-percentage growth.
Answer? Shrink the Gap to reduce population growth, not the other way around. Poverty breeds babies.
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