Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a...
by iguy on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:12AM
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> It was the only country in Africa to resist the Scramble for Africa
Indeed. In many ways you do better to think of Ethiopia (of that period) as a colonial power. Although there were no sailing ships involved, a fairly small center conquered lots of surrounding territory, inhabited by people who linguistically and culturally were about as foreign as could be.
> Their population went from 70 million in 2007 to 100 million in 2017. The current forecast is for about 200 million by 2050.
And from 20 million in 1960, when America was about 200 million.
Indeed. In many ways you do better to think of Ethiopia (of that period) as a colonial power. Although there were no sailing ships involved, a fairly small center conquered lots of surrounding territory, inhabited by people who linguistically and culturally were about as foreign as could be.
> Their population went from 70 million in 2007 to 100 million in 2017. The current forecast is for about 200 million by 2050.
And from 20 million in 1960, when America was about 200 million.