“This year a woman will give birth in the slums of Kibera outside Nairobi, a young man will leave his village in China for the booming metropolis of Shenzhen or a peasant farmer’s family will leave the arid north of Brazil for the bright lights of Sao Paulo. The moment itself will go unremarked. But the appearance of that infant, individual or family within the city limits will mark a watershed in human history. For the first time the urban population of the world will outnumber the rural.”

The Independent on the rich and the poor, the corporations and the slums in mega-cities such as Sao Paulo. Article here.

Posted Monday, March 12th, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Filed in china, community and social, human rights, politics

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