- July 2009 - Our current trip - 4.3 million
- June 1994 - Our first trip to Costa Rica - 3.3 million
Just to maintain the 1994 standard of living, for every three existing...
- Roads
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Houses
- Doctors
- Teachers
- Engineers
...that were there in 1994, there must now (in 2009) be almost four.
As with many rapidly expanding populations, growth in infrastructure has not been able to keep up. We were discussing this on the bus today while sitting in a traffic jam on the way from San Jose back to Heredia. There just seemed to be too many cars and not enough roads, although we did see a nice, new, nearly completed highway under construction. There are plenty of examples of inadequate infrastructure in the US as well; outdated highway systems in busy cities, electrical grids that are on the brink of brownout failure during heavy demand and overcrowding in public school classrooms. How can we (of the world) keep up with the increased demands of a world that is headed towards 9 billion inhabitants by 2050?
- Chuck
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