EARTHIn

MINIATURE

Speakers ON please!

If we could reduce the Earth’s population

to a small hamlet of exactly 100 inhabitants,

maintaining the actual existing

proportions, it would look like this:

There would be:

57 Asians21 Europeans 8 Africans 4 Americans

• 52 women• 48 men• 70 non-whites people• 30 white people• 70 non-christians• 30 christians• 89 heterosexuals• 11 homosexuals

6 persons would own59% of all the riches

and6 (yes, 6 of 6) would be

North-Americans.

Of the 100 persons, 80 would live under inhuman conditions.

70 would not know reading50 would suffer from

malnutrition 1 person would be

about to die1 baby would beabout to be born

and just 1 (yes, only 1)would have a University

education.

In this hamlet would be just 1 person thaht owns a computador.When analizing our

world from this reduced perspective,

the necessity of acceptance, reason

and education becomes more

evident.

Now think...If you got up this

morningmore healthy than sick,

then you are luckier than millions of

people that will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the dangers

of war,the loneliness ofbeing locked up,

the agony ofbeing tortured,

or the distress of hunger,then you are better off

than 500 million others.

If you can go to church without fear of being

humiliated, locked up, tortured or killed, then you are luckier

than3 billones people in

this world.

If you have food in your frigde,

cloths in your wardrobe,a roof over your headand a place to sleep,

then you are richer than75%

of the world’s population.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and some “change” in in a

safe..., then you are amongst the

8%most wealthy in the

world.

If your parents are still alive and

together,you are a very rare

breed.

If you are reading this message,

you have just receiveda double blessing:

Someone has thoughtof you and,

better even,you are luckier

than 2 billion peoplethat don’t even know

reading.

What you give... comes back. Send this message

to everybodyyou consider

a friend.Get the conscience

of the world to someone.The only thing that might

happen if you decide to re-send this is that, thanks to

you,someone will feel more

blessed.