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Reduce the world to a village of 100 people

 
 
Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 12:47 pm
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific

51 would be male, 49 would be female

82 would be non-white; 18 white

67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian

80 would live in substandard housing

67 would be unable to read

50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation

33 would be without access to a safe water supply

39 would lack access to improved sanitation

24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do
have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)

7 people would have access to the Internet

1 would have a college education

1 would have HIV

2 would be near birth; 1 near death

5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth; all 5 would be US citizens

33 would be receiving --and attempting to live on-- only 3% of the income of "the village"
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 01:10 pm
I like the general idea.

The skeptic in me strongly questions the math behind many of these numbers.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 03:29 pm
Me too.

I found the idea very interesting, but the author of the quoted statistics seems a bit off..
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 03:32 pm
How many women would I get to do?
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 03:42 pm
All of em. Very Happy
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 03:46 pm
just did a quick check re. usa and canada .
total population of about 298 + 33 million = 331 mil ,
world population about 6,000 mil ,
so 5 % would be about 300 mil , pretty close to the "5" people from USA and canada mentioned in the article .
anyone want to make it 5 1/2 people :wink: ?
hbg
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 03:48 pm
shewolfnm wrote:
All of em. Very Happy


You can be number 2, right after squinney.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 04:07 pm
I did a quick search to try to find the percentage of people who get a college education, and I came up with a snopes article on a similar piece that has a lot more reasoned arguments.

Snopes reasoning on similar article
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 04:11 pm
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
How many women would I get to do?


Probably 5 of the women are homosexual (and you couldn't do them) and 30 of them are underage (I will assume the best from you).

But don't feel bad, you could do a couple of the men.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Tue 7 Nov, 2006 07:44 pm
ebrown_p wrote:
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
How many women would I get to do?


Probably 5 of the women are homosexual (and you couldn't do them) and 30 of them are underage (I will assume the best from you).

But don't feel bad, you could do a couple of the men.


you assume the best of me and then accuse me of homosexuality? A sickness that is directly agains God's will? Man am I disapointed in you.
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