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- From: georg <georg@2012.org>
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: demographics
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:46:56 +0200
along some recent threads the following copy-paste forward might be
elucidating:
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it
would look like something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth ... and all 6
would be from 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
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer (a year ago no one had a computer)
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
apparent."
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georg
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it is the only way to heaven on earth.. . .
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demographics,
georg, 06/12/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- demographics, georg, 06/12/1999
- Re: demographics, Thilo Pfennig, 06/12/1999
- Re: demographics, Thilo Pfennig, 06/12/1999
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