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The Human Earth
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 very similar to the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (north & south)
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
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
Indeed, when one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, and education
becomes glaringly apparent.
~Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
~Stanford University, School of Medicine
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