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  • From: "Guy Clark" <guyclark@socket.net>
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  • Subject: Fw: Sobering Stats to Contemplate
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:33:42 -0500


Hey folks-
Here are some interesting statistics that belie our Americentric view
of
the world and make our so-called news outlets a joke.
Namaste',
Guy Clark

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Poster: Michael Boyce <birder@VOYAGER.NET>
Organization: Baker Sanctuary
Subject: Sobering Stats to Contemplate
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Every once in a while it's a good idea to step back and take a more
holistic view of the world while trying to put everything in
perspective. In that light, I offer the following sobering stats to
contemplate.
Michael Boyce
Baker Sanctuary Resident Manager
Co-chair., Environmental Action Committee
Michigan Audubon Society
birder@voyager.net
http://mas.mi.audubon.org/baker-sanctuary
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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 something like the following.

There would be:
<sum> 57 Asians
<sum> 21 Europeans
<sum> 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
<sum> 8 Africans
<sum> 52 would be female
<sum> 48 would be male
<sum> 70 would be nonwhite
<sum> 30 would be white
<sum> 70 would be non-Christian
<sum> 30 would be Christian
<sum> 89 would be heterosexual
<sum> 11 would be homosexual
<sum> 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6
would be from the United States.
<sum> 80 would live in substandard housing
<sum> 70 would be unable to read
<sum> 50 would suffer from malnutrition
<sum> 1 would be near death
<sum> 1 would be near birth
<sum> 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
<sum> 1 would own a computer


"When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective,
the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
apparent."


(stats compiled in 1999 by)
Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
Stanford University, School of Medicine

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