Cairo consensus: at the population conference. (United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt) (Column)

From: The Christian Century | Date: October 12, 1994| Author: Maguire, Daniel C. | Copyright information

AS ONE approaches the Cairo airport by air, the view from the plane window is stunningly bleak. There is nothing but parched desert as far as the eye can see. How, one wonders, can a land like this support human life? Indeed, 96 percent of Egypt cannot support life, vegetative or human. Its 58 million citizens cluster in the precious 4 percent of arable land along the Nile.

This unusual site was perhaps an appropriate setting for the United Nations International Conferen...

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