IP: A Thought Provoking Summary

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

From: ejones@hooked.net (Earle  Jones)


Dave:  FYI
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A Thought Provoking Summary


If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people.  With all existing human ratios remaining the
same, it would look like this:


There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
(North and South) and 8 Africans.


51 would be female; 49 would be male


70 would be nonwhite; 30 white.


70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.


50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
people and all 6 would be citizens of 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.


Only 1 would have a college education.


No one would own a computer.


When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes
glaringly apparent.


-- From *Tracing* May 15, 96 (A Newsletter of the University Library
   University of California, San Diego)
   Thought you might be interested.


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