OT:Small World
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- Subject: OT:Small World
- From: B* S*
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:51:17 -0400
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
Listers (and John), please forgive me for imposing on your good will--but I
thought this was good enough to share widely. It came from a faculty
colleague here at the college.
"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
>
> When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
> need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes
glaringly
> apparent."
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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