Stopping African fertility is the world's number one priority. Much more important than climate change. Waiting one generation may mean 1-2 more billion people we can't afford.
Painted bike lanes correlate with bike lane interruptions. Often car drivers use those to park, to manoeuvre or even to speed up. It often coincides with bus lanes. A bus that stops forces the cyclist to change lane with a huge risk of cars coming from behind.
Often you find bike lanes in the most harmless streets, while they disappear in dangerous junctions and roundabouts.
In 21st century it's fashionable to lobby the government to assign you rents. If you don't protest, you only get what the market thinks is fair. That's not enough.
Yet living standards aren't improving an inch.
Housing price to income ratios are higher than at any time on record.
Outside the city, populations are decaying year after year, and the only chances of benefiting from global economic trends are in the city.
There's a housing bubble in virtually every major city of Europe due to speculation and migration from smaller towns.
To put an example, in London median house price hovers around half a million, while median London salary is about 30k. Sure, your washing machine is cheaper than 40 years ago, but the basic element in any economy -housing- has become more expensive. Cities are saturated in every sense.
Except maybe the idea The Economist wants to push is somehow that we need millions and millions more ex-EU immigrants? Because they have seen a spike in underpaid IT vacancies.
Yes, and booming Amazon doesn't help to curve residuals use. It's a good example of what has to change going forward. I don't need 3 layers of wrapping for my 10 centimeters shampoo
Surely you mean indígena. Indigente means homeless, or when you want to call someone that has no idea what he talks about, for instance when they talk about racial trends in Europe and North America, "indigente intelectual".