If we could shrink the earth's population...
Submitted by
Jamie on Wed, 11/26/2008 at 10:25am.
A friend sent this email to me, and I thought it was a valuable read just before Thanksgiving. Sure made me grateful to be who and where I am!
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 something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 would be Africans
42 would have mental or physical disabilities
52 would be female
48 would be male
30 would be white
70 would be non-white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
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 (yes, only1) would own computer
And, therefore . . .
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if you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the
world.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are
ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can read this message you are more blessed than the over two
billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
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