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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
ID: #33235
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Urbanization Trend
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The second big driver that will transform our future is, of course. Demographics. 1 billion children are alive today, all of whom will be adults within the next eighteen years. ALL of them will see your Lifestyle on CNN or NBC even, if they don't own a TV, they will see it through the door of the bar. They will see it through the posters on the side of the highway even if they don't own a car. 1 billion children, all of whom will consume resources. Linked to that, an urbanization trend, at a pace which we have never seen before. 300 million people in China alone will move from rural areas into cities in the next 8 or 9 years. Another 450 million people will move in Africa off the Land and into cities. Most of them, most city dwellers already live in slums. They have no running water, or maybe the very first service they have is access to a tap, a hundred meters away. They have, at the moment, very little access to electricity, but they're there. And they're demanding infrastructure, and their homes will grow from the one-story shack, to 2 storeys, to 3 storeys, and then once the mains water supply arrives another crisis comes. And of course, as you’ve seen it, which is the puddles of water everywhere, the drains that are full of soap and human waste, the earth that used to be dry, because people only carried 10 Liters 100 meters every 10 hours, now we have leaking taps, we have sewage problems, and we have a whole host of other issues requiring more infrastructure.
Which of the following are mentioned as problems caused by urbanization?
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