" By next year, more than half the world's population, or about 3.3 billion people, will live in towns and cities, a number expected to swell to almost 5 billion by 2030, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released [last month]", Celia W. Dugger writes for the International Herald Tribune. Quite scarring, when one thinks about the implications. However, the threat can turn into the very chance to save the World.
Read the full article here, U.N. report and much more here.
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