Time: Wed Nov 13 12:59:46 1996
To: Finchley@aol.com (by way of "William C. Beeler" <cenmonet@socketis.net>)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Club of Rome
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The Club of Rome is an NWOW.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 02:47 PM 11/13/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Folks
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>Without computer generation I doubt if this
>would have been possible -- quite unique!!
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>Hillbilly B
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>>From: rclaire@alphacom.net (Ruth-Claire Weintraub)
>>Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 17:47:42 -0400
>>Subject: The world thinking small
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>>> If the world were a village of 1,000 people, it would include:
>>>584 Asians
>>>124 Africans
>>>95 East and West Europeans
>>>84 Latin Americans
>>>55 Soviets (including for now Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other
>>>national groups)
>>>52 North Americans
>>>6 Australians and New Zealanders
>>>
>>> The people of the village have considerable difficulty in
>>>communicating:
>>>165 people speak Mandarin
>>>86 English
>>>83 Hindu/Urdu
>>>64 Spanish
>>>58 Russian
>>>37 Arabic
>>>
>>> This list accounts for the mother tongues of only half the
>>>villagers. The other half speak (in descending order of frequency)
>>>Bengali,Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French, and 200 other
>>>languages.
>>>
>>>In this village of 1,000 there are:
>>>329 Christians (among them 187 Catholics, 84 Protestants, 31 Orthodox)
>>>178 Moslems
>>>167 "non-religious"
>>>132 Hindus
>>>60 Buddhists
>>>45 atheists
>>>3 Jews
>>>86 all other religions
>>>
>>> One-third (330) of the 1,000 people in the world village are
>>>children and only 60 are over the age of 65. Half the children are
>>>immunized against preventable infectious diseases such as measles and
>>>polio.
>>>
>>> Just under half of the married women in the village have access
>>>and use modern contraceptives.
>>>
>>> This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them
>>>for lack of food, 1 from cancer, 2 of the deaths are of babies born within
>>>the year. One person of the 1,000 is infected with the HIV virus; that
>>>person most likely has not yet developed a full-blown case of AIDS.
>>>
>>> With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village
>>>next year will be 1,018.
>>>
>>> In this 1,000-person community, 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 automobile).
>>>
>>> About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.
>>>
>>> Of the 670 adults in the village, half are illiterate.
>>>
>>> The village has six acres of land per person, 6,000 acres in all,
>>>of which 700 acres are cropland, 1,400 acres pasture, 1,900 acres
>>>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 village allocates 83 percent of its fertilizer to 40 percent
>>>of its crop land - 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 28 percent of the food grains and feeds for 73 percent
>>>of the people. The average grain yield of that land is one-third the
>>>harvest achieved by the richer villages.
>>>
>>>In the village of 1,000 people, there are:
>>>5 soldiers
>>>7 teachers
>>>1 doctor
>>>3 refugees driven from home by war or drought
>>>
>>> The village has a total budget each year, public and private, of
>>>over $3 million - $3,000 per person if it is distributed evenly (which, we
>>>have already seen, it isn't).
>>>
>>> Of the total $3 million:
>>>$181,000 goes to weapons and warfare
>>>$159,000 for education
>>>$132,000 for health care
>>>
>>> The village 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
>>>people 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 world village they
>>>would dispose of the radioactive materials of which the weapons are made.
>>>
>>> [Note: The specifics mentioned above are taken from a book by
>>>Donella H. Meadows entitled The Limits of Growth. 9 million copies (in 29
>>>languages) are in print.
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