Michio Kaku has predicted that population will be controlled by young people moving to the city and having fewer children as a result of the limited opportunities for bearing children there. Cities, like Lagos, become more organized and operate more fairly as time moves on like Singapore, because wealth created in the city changes the city to a higher level of experience. By the same token, the countryside of Nigeria, returning to the wild, will once again produce wealth for Nigerian cities and the rest of Africa.

Certainly, many will die in the process as you have written in your poem. But hasn't that always been true? Part of the problem is that so many are living, consuming, and making things miserable because of their overuse of the available resources.

Ron