hey everyone,
i don't know how many of you have seen this before, but i brought it to the undercurrent meeting last week and not everyone had seen it there. it's a real eye opener.
A Summary of the World
by Tim Wallace
Dept of Agricultural Economics, UC Berkeley
If we could, at this time, shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
70 would be non-white; 30 white
70 would be non-christian; 30 christian
50% of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people
All 6 would be citizens of the US
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
80 would live in sub-standard housing
Only 1 would have a college education
When one considers the world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
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