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How many would be growing Iris?
----- Original Message -----
From:
B*@hsc.edu
To: i*@onelist.com
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 8:51
AM
Subject: [iris-talk] OT:Small World
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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