If there are only 100 people on Earth, how might we describe our world?
Thanks to Michele Costa for sharing The Miniature Earth with me, a thought experiment and slideshow based on the work of the late Donella Meadows that places global issues in the context of a world populated by only 100 people.
If there are only 100 people on the planet:
* 43 live without basic sanitation
* 18 live without an improved water source
* 6 people own 59% of the entire wealth of the community
* 13 are malnourished or hungry
* 14 can't read
* only 7 are educated at a secondary level
* only 12 have a computer
* only 3 have an internet connection
* the village spends more than US$1.12 trillion on military expenditures and only US$100 billion on development aid
* if you keep your food in a refrigerator, your clothes in a closet, if you have a bed to sleep in, and a roof over your head you are richer than 75% of the entire world population
* if you have a bank account you're one of the 30 wealthiest people in the world
* 18 struggle to live on US$1.00 per day or less
* 53 struggle to live on US$2.00 per day or less
Visited here via Pure Land Mountain as I was looking for some new blogs to read. Most happy to have found this. While I no-where fit within the culture of this blog, I strive to get close to these ideals put forth.
Posted by: Tabor | September 2007 at 05:09 AM