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A Village of 100 People Representing the World
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:46 pm
by Suzanne
A village of 100 people representing the world:
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.
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".
Suzanne
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:12 am
by Chris OConnor
Should your post then have said 1,000 people?
Awesome post. Thanks. Imagine 6% of the world's population controls about 60% of it's wealth.
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:06 am
by Ophelia
I agree, a very interesting post.
Among the things that need to be changed in the list, I would suggest starting by enhancing redistribution by taxing the six wealthy US citizens a little more.
Village
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:33 am
by Suzanne
Chris OConnor wrote:
Should your post then have said 1,000 people?
No, the author condensed it even farther. The whole world in a little nut shell. Makes you pause to think, yes?
I'm glad you and Ophelia read it.
Suzanne
Village
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:50 am
by Suzanne
Ohpelia wrote:
Among the things that need to be changed in the list, I would suggest starting by enhancing redistribution by taxing the six wealthy US citizens a little more.
Ah, redistribution, good point, but not in our country. Actually not in many countries, for a long time. Poor India, and I do mean poor.
Hawaii wants to go back to it's original origins. Hawaii has an island strictly for the use of the natives, no tourists. Maybe they will go back to redistribution. I don't think it will catch on tho.
Suzanne
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:18 pm
by tarav
Wow. Thank you for posting that.