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Plan For Growth — or Get Swamped

BELLAGIO, Italy - Will Planet Earth be able to handle the mega-surge of people pouring into the cities of Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Back in 1950, there were 2.2 billion of us, mostly spread across the world's rural areas. Today the United Nations estimates world population at 6.6 billion. Half live in cities, where an accelerating human flood of rural people - many desperately poor - generates slums, endangers water and sewage systems, and breeds local misery and potential pandemics.