THE EARTH
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 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 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 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a
compressed perspective, the need for both
acceptance, uderstanding and education becomes
glaringly apparent
Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
Stanford University, School of Medicine
