“If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ration 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) and 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 (all 6 would be from the United States)
• 80 would live in sub-standard housing
• 70 would be unable to read
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• One would be near death
• One would be near birth
• One would have a college education
• One would own a computer
Mary Ellen Edmunds, You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don’t Need, Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2005, p. 160.
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