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URBAN GROWTH
VOA - Voice of America
Cities create environmental problems,
but they can also create solutions.
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
Lately
their estimate is that in two thousand eight,
for the first time
in history, more than half of the world population will be in
urban areas.
The United Nations Population Fund
just released
its
yearly
"State
of World Population"
report.
Researchers
say three-and-a-third billion people will be living in urban areas
next year. By two thousand thirty, the estimate is
almost
five billion. The fastest
growth
will be in Asia and Africa.
Poor people will
make up
most of the urban growth. And natural
increase
will be the
main
cause of that growth, not migration from rural areas. The report
says mega-cities of more than ten million people have not grown to
the
sizes once
expected. Most growth is expected
instead
in smaller towns and cities.
The report says the possible good of urbanization
far outweighs
the bad. The
task
is
to learn
how to make the best use of the possibilities. For example, cities
can have
a lot of poverty,
yet
they also represent the best
hope
for poor people to escape poverty, it says. "Cities create
environmental problems,
but they can also create solutions."
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by
Jill Moss.
Source:
VOA - Voice of America
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