Showing posts with label world population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world population. Show all posts

Sunday, July 1, 2012

I Am Eleven Documentary -

I Am Eleven Documentary -
A interesting look at the world through the eyes of eleven year olds... A perspective uncluttered, in the main by politics, or at least political correctness, hidden agendas and jealousies.
Touches on culture, and environmental factors influencing the children's lives. This is the world that we have made for them, and what they will inherit from us. A window into a world where one is neither a child, nor a teenager, in which these people briefly linger... absolutely fascinating.

Can't wait to see it...
http://iameleven.com/





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Friday, November 5, 2010

Why?

20% percent of the world's population uses 80% percent of the planet's resources
20% percent of the world's population uses 80% percent of the planet's resources

20% percent of the world's population uses 80% percent of the planet's resources
20% percent of the world's population uses 80% percent of the planet's resources


And consumes 30% percent moer than the planet can regenerate
And consumes 30% percent moer than the planet can regenerate
And consumes 30% percent moer than the planet can regenerate
And consumes 30% percent moer than the planet can regenerate
And consumes 30% percent moer than the planet can regenerate

Ponder more about this....

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Proportions of World population and disparities we can all understand!

This may have been seen by many people on one of those annoying FW.'s that arrive in your junk email Inbox, but it is worth pondering on... for the reality that we who own a computer (there are five in my house)... are amongst the global elite.

Something to ponder about!!!!
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the human
ratio's remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
THERE WOULD BE:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North & 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 US
80 would be living 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 acceptance,
understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent.


If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare, even in the United States and
Canada.