Monday, April 11, 2011

In a Village of 100

Term two of semester two is nearly finished. My last project for civics has been handed in, and by the end of the week the class will turn into careers.
As I was cleaning out the subject's binder I came across a paper that I really had to share with you all:

If we could shrink the earth's population to a villiage of 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same it would look something like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (both North and South)
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
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 would posess 59% of the entire village's wealth
80 would live in substandart housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 would have an education
1 would own a computer

-Em

Eco-Note: Turn the tap OFF when you brush your teeth!
When a faucet is left running for a minute it usually produces six litres of water.
According to We Are What we Do this means that the average family wastes 35,000 litres of water per year, and that your street could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool annually!

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