Thoughts

[Hai-Tri Le <haitril@microsoft.com>]

> A friend sent a postcard to me with the following on it.  Pretty
> interesting:
> 
> "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 like this:
> 
> *	There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western
> Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans
> *	51 would be female, 49 would be male
> *	70 would be non-white, 30 would be white
> *	70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
> *	50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
> people and all 6 would be citizens of 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
> *	Only 1 would have a college education
> *	No one would own a computer
> 
> When one considers our world from such an incredible compressed
> perspective it really does cause one to stop and take notice.  I feel
> so fortunate.  I hope you do too."