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> The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water ports, lack of self sustainable regional security, and general difficulty getting g

> The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water ports, lack of self sustainable regional security, and general difficulty getting goods to markets is going to leave Africa seriously capital poor. Do you have spruces to back up these claims?

aaron695 5y ago
It's the geography, not the fact they have the worst corruption in the world - https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/cod https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/cod OP's point is totally off topic to the article, the actual article title is - "How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future" Africa's cities are big already and they will keep climbing. There's no reason to doubt this, they can support large cities, that's easy, it just won't be pretty. No one is claiming they will be any sort of "Super power". Technology would have to change things in a big way for that to be true. Everyone getting drones in Africa isn't going to help with stability any time soon. OP is strawmanning it.
- Reichhardt 5y ago
  - 0dayz 5y ago
    That average 60-70 iq is from a very severe lack of education and high end jobs not genetic as far as we know. Either way, parent post explained what the article is about.
    - rdtwo 5y ago
      Yeah absolutely also iq tests aren’t standardized to the culture region etc. Severe malnutrition and lack of education are a real problem to progress though
  - chalcolithic 5y ago
    Africa is also the most diverse by far, I'd love to have much more detail on how that intelligence is distributed.
  - namlem 5y ago
    It's vital that we improve access to nutrition and early childhood education in Africa for these reasons. Those are the main factors depressing IQ. Outright famine is no longer common, but malnutrition is still a persistent problem.
FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
I'm not sure I buy everything he says, but it might be worth finding a Peter Zeihan talk, if you haven't heard one before. That'll at least introduce you to these arguments. Unless this was a tree joke I missed.

aaron695 5y ago

It's the geography, not the fact they have the worst corruption in the world - https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/cod https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/cod OP's point is totally off topic to the article, the actual article title is - "How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future" Africa's cities are big already and they will keep climbing. There's no reason to doubt this, they can support large cities, that's easy, it just won't be pretty. No one is claiming they will be any sort of "Super power". Technology would have to change things in a big way for that to be true. Everyone getting drones in Africa isn't going to help with stability any time soon. OP is strawmanning it.

Reichhardt 5y ago
- 0dayz 5y ago
  That average 60-70 iq is from a very severe lack of education and high end jobs not genetic as far as we know. Either way, parent post explained what the article is about.
  - rdtwo 5y ago
    Yeah absolutely also iq tests aren’t standardized to the culture region etc. Severe malnutrition and lack of education are a real problem to progress though
- chalcolithic 5y ago
  Africa is also the most diverse by far, I'd love to have much more detail on how that intelligence is distributed.
- namlem 5y ago
  It's vital that we improve access to nutrition and early childhood education in Africa for these reasons. Those are the main factors depressing IQ. Outright famine is no longer common, but malnutrition is still a persistent problem.

FooBarBizBazz 5y ago

I'm not sure I buy everything he says, but it might be worth finding a Peter Zeihan talk, if you haven't heard one before. That'll at least introduce you to these arguments. Unless this was a tree joke I missed.