Subject: not birds [Fwd: global stats ]
Date: Oct 2 16:48:10 1996
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at mirrors.ups.edu


A friend (also a birder) sent this to me. It's not about birds, but it's
too important not to forward!

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>><Greetings. I found this on the internet yesterday and, seeing that there
>>was a conference this weekend on World/Global History, it seems good to
>>pass it on.
>>
>>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...
>>
>>
>>(The homily at the end of the stats is part of the original piece)
>
>Linda M. Feltner office (206) 343-5338
>Wildlife Artist & Graphic Designer home (206) 767-9937
>P.O. Box 4251 email: lfeltner at earthlink.net
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