Today I received a friend an e-mail of the Cologne participatory newspaper. The text I already knew about, it exists well in many versions. It is nevertheless always worth considering ...
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of 100 souls scoring and thereby would maintain the proportions of all living on earth peoples, this village would be composed as follows:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (North, Central and South) 8 Africans.
There were 52 women, 48 men, 30 white and 70 non-whites, 30 Christians and 70 non-Christians 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals.
6 persons possess 59% of total wealth and all 6 would be from the United States, 80 were living in dilapidated houses, 70 would be illiterate 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be about to die, 1 would be born here. Only 1 person possessed a computer and only one had a university degree. (More ...)