A Global Village

A Global Village 

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, would you recognize it?

 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
  • 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

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

Source: Donella Meadows, Ph.D.

EPILETTER Spring 2002

(This was something my Communications professor shared with us at the beginning of the semester and I thought it was very interesting. I've never thought of our world in these kind of numbers. Just shows the need for understanding, you can never have enough of it.)

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jennee's picture

Cool post. I guess I never thought of it like that.... Its different.

AdamLabo's picture
Volunteer for the Progressive U Alumni Association

That is quite interesting.

Yours in Crisis,

ER Adam

TCho's picture
Member of the Progressive U Alumni Association

Yes, very interesting. In fact, I did an excersise regarding this exact same thing within on of my classes in high school--and the responses were of all around amazement!

TCho
Happy blogging!

http://www.progressiveu.org/user/tcho

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

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