The vast majority of the people in the world do not live as we do. If “we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this:”
There would be
- 57 Asians
- 21 Europeans
- 14 North and South Americans
- 8 Africans
- 30 white
- 70 nonwhite
- 6 people would possess 59% of the 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 malnutrition
- 1 would have a college education
- 1 would own a computer
Ken Wilber, A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality (Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, 2000), 57. The statistics are based upon work done by Dr. Phillip Harter of Stanford University School of Medicine.
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