Re: Study states races rapidly accelerating away from one an
by
FOJ
12/14/2007, 9:06 AM #
transboy,
It doesn't know that it's going to happen... it WANTS it to happen. And it will say whatever it can and interpret statistics however it must to appease that desire.
Trying to have an actual analytical discourse with it is fruitless, its bias will never allow it to reach a logical or accurate premise.
The actual figures (all numbers are approximate) will tell you that there are currently 944 million PEOPLE in Africa. By 2025 there will be 1.36 billion and by 2050 1.95 billion. Unless, of course, someone like fff64 gets hold of a nuclear weapon.
As for your Africa – China ranting, it is infantile. Yes, China has shown a history of treating its people cruelly (as have many African leaders), but the economic interaction between the two is based on business and preparing for the future pragmatically. China is investing heavily in African infrastructure, obviously for access to its countless resources, but it coincides with a time when Africa is growing as an emerging market that has recently proven that no matter how poorly the US economy performs will continue to thrive.
If your perspective wasn’t warped by and intellectually limited by hatred you would take a closer look at the business reporting you would understand this. But you won’t, will you? Some plan to be the next colonialist power doesn’t interest China. Other than asking that African governments recognize the “One China” policy, there is no ideology behind their intentions. It just isn’t in their best interests.
As for you, free-whatever,
you’re of Russian origin, correct?
Russia's population peaked in the early 1990s (at the time of the end of the Soviet Union) with about 148 million people in the country. Today, Russia's population is approximately 143 million. The United States Census Bureau estimates that Russia's population will decline from the current 143 million to a mere 111 million by 2050, a loss of more than 30 million people and a decrease of more than 20%.
I think you should ship your “pity” back home.