content: You, like the journalist don't understand the facts. He said that the number of children born has stopped growing. That doesn't mean that population growth is shrinking, we estimate population growth will be less than 1% by 2020 and less than 0.5 in 2050. http://www.worldometers.info/  For the detroit remark it's plain stupid, once again he never said that Nigeria is paradise, he only explain how the media simplify this wealth/poor countries into two categories when in reality a vast majority of countries are rapidly growing.