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It would include:
* 584 Asians
* 124 Africans
* 95 Eastern and Western Europeans
* 84 Latin Americans
* 55 former Soviets (this includes Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other national groups)
* 52 North Americans
* 6 Australians and New Zealanders.
The people on this planet would speak:
* 165 Mandarin
* 86 English
* 83 Hindu/Urdi
* 64 Spanish
* 58 Russian
* 37 Arabic
But that’s only half! The other half speak (in descending order of frequency) Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French, and 200 other languages.
On this planet 1,000 there are:
* 329 Christians (among them 187 Catholics, 84 Protestants, and 31 Orthodox)
* 178 Muslims
* 167 “Non religious”
* 60 Buddhists
* 45 Atheists
* 32 Hindus
* 3 Jews
* 86 of other religions.
One-third of Earth’s 1,000 people are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65. Only half of the children are immunized against preventable diseases such as measles and polio.
Just under half of the world’s married women have access to and use modern contraceptives.
This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die; three of them for lack of food, one from cancer. Two of the deaths will be of babies born within the year. One person on the Earth is infected with HIV; that person most likely has not yet developed a full-blown case of AIDS.
With the 28 births and 10 deaths, next year the world population will be 1,018.
Within this 1,000 person planet, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 receive only 2 percent of the income.
Only 70 people of the 1,000 own an automobile (although some of the 70 own more than one car).
About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.
Of the 670 adults on the planet, half are illiterate.
The planet has six acres of land per person; 6000 acres in all.
It is divided as follows:
* 700 acres are cropland
* 1,400 acres are pasture
* 1,900 acres are woodland
* 2,000 acres desert, tundra, pavement, and other wasteland.
The woodland is declining rapidly; the wasteland is increasing. The other land categories are roughly stable. The planet allocates 83 percent of its fertilizer to 40 percent of its cropland – that owned by the richest and best fed 270 people. Excess fertilizer running off this land causes pollution in lakes and wells. The remaining 60 percent of the land, with its 17 percent of the fertilizer, produces only 28 percent of the food but feeds 73 percent of the people. The average grain yield on that land is one-third the harvest achieved by the richer inhabitants.
In this world of 1,000 people, there are:
* 5 soldiers
* 7 teachers
* 1 doctor
* 3 refugees driven from home by war or drought.
The planet has a total yearly budget, public and private, of over $3 million. This would amount to $3,000 per person if it was distributed evenly (which, as we have already seen, it is not). Of the total $3 million:
* $181,000 goes to weapons and warfare
* $159,000 to education
* $132,000 to health care.
The planet has buried beneath it enough explosive power in nuclear weapons to blow itself to smithereens many times over. These weapons are under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together; and if they do, whether they might set off the weapons anyway through inattention or technical bungling; and if they ever decide to dismantle the weapons, where in the planet they can dispose of the radioactive materials from which the weapons are made?
Food for thought…..
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