If the world's population were reduced to 100, it would look something like

by What-A-Coincidence 13 Replies latest jw friends

  • What-A-Coincidence
    What-A-Coincidence

    this

    http://www.miniature-earth.com/

    The idea of reducing the world?s population to a community of only 100 people is very useful and important. It makes us easily understand the differences in the world.
    There are many types of reports that use the Earth?s population reduced to 100 people, especially in the Internet. Ideas like this should be more often shared, especially nowadays when the world seems to be in need of dialogue and understanding among different cultures, in a way that it has never been before.

    The text that originated this webmovie was published on May 29, 1990 with the title ?State of the Village Report?, and it was written by Donella Meadows, who passed away in February 2000. Nowadays Sustainability Institute, through Donella?s Foundation, carries on her ideas and projects.

    Donella Meadows' original "State of the Village Report" may be found at:
    www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn338villageed

    The text used here has been modified. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications, and mainly reports on the World?s population provided by The UN, PRB and others.

    The Miniature Earth website was first published in 2001, since than it has been seen by more than 2 million people around the globe and linked by more than 20.000 websites.

    This is the third version of the project.

  • monkeyshine
    monkeyshine

    Damn, that was cool as hell WAC. Thank you

  • What-A-Coincidence
    What-A-Coincidence

    Yeah man. That was pretty amazing once you break it down.

    what is the ratio: witness per world pop?

  • monkeyshine
    monkeyshine

    I think it works out to .10 of a person.

    That's based on 6.5 million jw's though.

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    Wow wac, that was amazing, thanks for sharing.

  • funkyderek
    funkyderek

    Of course, only one person in the village (if that) can view the site because it uses Flash and requires a high-speed connection, when all the relevant information could easily be put in a short text file.

  • mkr32208
    mkr32208

    Sobering...

    Vote mkr for pres in 08 and we'll do something about it!

  • Momofmany
    Momofmany

    Wow. That was very interesting.

  • choosing life
    choosing life

    Really does make you stop and ponder the state of this world. Not a very pretty picture either. It's a shame that we can't do better. Also should really appreciate what we do have. Thanks for the poat. Much more thought provoking then any daily text.

  • Kudra
    Kudra

    That was really fantastic-

    The numbers fell out differently that I thought they would.

    Also, I thought it would have noted that "90 people think George W Bush is a dunm f*&k".

    ;) (just kidding)

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