From the works of Donella H. Meadow's "If the World Were a Village of 1,000 People", which is included in an anthology called, "Futures by Design".If we could shrink the earth's populatation to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaning the same, it would look like this:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)
8 Africans
52 would be female, 48 would be male
70 would be non-white, 30 white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual
59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hand of only 6 people
and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
Only one would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both understanding and acceptance by each and every one of us becomes extremely apparent.
Suzanne
