The park is centered on an ancient lakebed, remnants of which include the seasonally flooded Lake Amboseli and some swampland. Mount Kilimanjaro is a well known volcano, composed of alternating layers of volcanic rock and ash deposits. Rainfall that reaches the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro infiltrates the volcanic material and moves slowly down the slopes to saturate the ancient lakebed, eventually emerging at springs in the swampy, seasonally flooded land.

 

The groundwater becomes saline as it percolates through the lakebed, since the salt stored in the lakebed sediments dissolves easily when the sediments are wet. At the beginning of the modern era in A.D. the number of people in the world was probably about 100 million, one-third of the present population of the United States. In 1960 the world contained 3 billion people.

 

Our population has more than doubled in the last 40 years, to 6.8 billion people today. In the b, population increase is often apparent when we travel. Their solution was a new world view that depended only secondarily on facts, understanding, and science. In contrast, again in simplest terms, the anti environmentalists believed that whatever the environmental effects, social and economic health and progress were necessary for people and civilization to prosper.