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May 20, 2009
 
 
 

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The idea of reducing the world’s population to a community of only 100 people is very useful and important. It makes us easily understand the differences in the world.There are many types of reports that use the Earth’s population reduced to 100 people, especially in the Internet. Ideas like this should be more often shared, especially nowadays when the world seems to be in need of dialogue and understanding among different cultures, in a way that it has never been before.
Oct
2008
Many of us have seen a version of the 100-people world, for me, the one created by the Miniature Earth Project is the most complete (stats-wise) and best designed. It was inspired in Donella Meadows' "Who lives in the Global Village?" a 1000-people version published in 1990. I appreciate this type of endeavors since they can take us away of our own world for a moment (a very difficult task if you think), a world based on infinite possibilities but with only a few to think on others' circumstances and, thus, our privileges  in a better and, if I may concede, our responsibilities in a highly unequal village.  For instance, if you're one of the hundreds of thousands of visitors to this weblog who click everyday from their homes, you could consider yourself as to be one of the twelve people with computer. Or maybe, you'd be the only one in the world holding a graduate degree. If you're spending more than 2 USD a day (TWO DOLLARS, 20 MX PESOS, 80 IND RUPEES), you actually are richer than more than 71% of the population. Using data of 2006, here are more numbers:61 Asians12 Europeans08 North Americans05 South America and the Caribbean13 Africans01 Oceania50 women50 men47 lives in urban area9 are disable33 are Christian (Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans and other Christians)18 are Muslims14 are Hindus16 are non-religious6 are Buddhists13 practice other religions43 live without basic sanitation18 live without an improved water source6 people own 59% of the entire wealth of the community13 are hungry or malnourished14 can’t readonly 7 are educated at a secondary levelonly 12 have a computeronly 3 have an internet connection1 adult, aged 15-49, has HIV/AIDS.The village spend more than US$1.12 trillion on military expenditures UNand only US$ 100 billion on development aidIf you keep your food in a refrigeratorAnd your clothes in a closetIf you have a roof over your headAnd have a bed to sleep inYou are richer than 75% of the entire world population.If you have a bank accountYou’re one of the 30 we
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2008
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If the world were shrunk to just 100 people… now with video.
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