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7. Questions for discussion.
- How will increased life expectancy and as a result a shift towards an aging population in high-income developed countries affect their societies?
- Why will North America, Australia, and New Zealand continue to have the highest rates of population growth among the developed countries?
- Why will the declining ratio of working people to retirees strain social services, pensions, and health systems in developed countries?
- Why is it hard to foresee how the shift towards a greater proportion of older voters will change the political dynamics in developed countries?
- Why will a high proportion of young people trend be destabilizing in some developing countries, in Sub-Saharan Africa and a few countries in Latin America and the Middle East?
- Do you find it is true that the growing number of legal and illegal migrants will increase social and political tension? Explain your point.
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Global Trends 2015:
A dialogue about the future with non-government expert. Natural resources and environment
Food
Driven by advances in agricultural technologies, world food grain production and stocks in 2015 will be adequate to meet the needs of a growing world population. Despite the overall adequacy of food, problems of distribution and availability will remain.
- The number of chronically malnourished people in conflict- ridden Sub-Saharan Africa will increase by more than 20 per cent over the next 15 years.
- The potential for famine will still exist where the combination of repressive government or internal conflict and natural disasters prevents or limits relief efforts, as in Somalia in the early and North Korea more recently.
- Donors will become more reluctant to provide relief when the effort might become endangered in military conflict.
The use of genetically modified crops has great potential for meeting the nutrition needs of the poor in developing countries. Popular and political opposition in the EU countries and, to a lesser extent, in the United States, however, has clouded the prospects for applying this technology.
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