hectic

certainly Food for Thought...http://www.miniature-earth.com/

velvia

makes you think thats for sure

island991

its just world percentages isnt it?? 100 people in population? simple world percentages.

Surprised by the fact that only 1% of the worlds population (at the given age range)has aids. thought it was supposed to be way more of a problem in the world??

island991

also dont like the way its done. They show at the start the there would be 61% asians and 12% africans etc.

Then when they talk about poverty and 53% people living on less that $2 they show the picture of an african child??

It perpetuates the media making us all thing that africa is the only place where that poverty occurs, this is all we are ever shown. But if there are only 13 africans in total (and some of those wont be in that 53 in <$2 poverty) then there are 40% from elsewhere in the world (and most of those probably in the asian group as that forms 61% of the total people).

Dunno if this is making sence as my thoughts dont always!! but i dont like people making us think of only one group of people when problems are more wide spread. Its kinda the same subliminal thing we get all the time from media.

just me, but i hate that kinda stereotyping (sp?!)

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

someone has far to much time on their hands to come up with stats like this.

Sorry but it doesn't make me feel guilty for what I have in the slightest.

Generic User

Some of the countries with the highest populations/birth rates are also the poorest. So high populations goes hand in hand with poverty.

When as a species and going back to our primitive roots, our goal in life would be to survive and breed. So remove our developed culture and that is what you have in developing countries.

China's birth control program was a appluadable step in helping to reduce this, dispite it being frowned upon and affecting human rights.

stilover

Only 3 have a Internet connection.

97 are missing out on soo much **** !!

Trucker Ted

FPMSL


**** the other countries, as long as were all right,and charity begins at home,there are plenty of causes in the U.K that can be looked after before sending millions to ungrateful ****holes around the world.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Ted, I think a more diplomatic way of putting it, is that once the human population is unsustainable, let natural selection take its course.

PeteT

They are still human beings Ted, they just happen to have been born in a different part of the world. How many UK residents starve to death every year?

leonpoole

I got bored half way through

Trucker Ted

Yes ,they just happen to be born in another part of the world,and what is their governments doing about it ,as jay m A says let natural selection take its course,when they learn to stop breeding like rabbits they will maybe have half a chance of feeding themselves.

PeteT

Are you honestly saying that you don't care that thousands of people die every day from malnutrition and that it's somehow 'their own fault'?

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

So what is your solution then?

2000 years ago the whole planet was in the same boat, we in the west managed to develop into what we are today. No idea how we did it but at a guess I would say democracy and civilisation had a key part in it.

All these 3rd world countries had exactly the same oppotunities as the west to develop, but failed, so is that our fault? or is it the fault of corrupt governments, war lords lack of democracy to name a few. All these African nations have lived like this for thousands of years quite happily then the dogooders from the west decided that we would show them there is a different not better) but different way of life to be had and now they all want it and no matter how much charity or money we throw at these nations nothing changes, except the governments get richer the war lords get bigger and better weapons and the people continue to starve. So what has been achieved? more dead people thats all.

And what do these war lords do? they start wars over an equally useless piece of land, spending millions on weapons and killing countless nationals, these wars go on for years. Place like Iran, Iraq, Afghaninstan etc are not capable of peace and will continue fighting and killing people for eternity and there is nowt we can do about it so why not let em get on with it.

Other middle eastern nations seem to have sorted their **** out and are not at war constantly or train suicide bombers. most of the population live in peace just like we do. Kuwait, Saudi, Jordan etc so why can Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan etc not follow suit? the answer is because they don't want to! fighting, killing and war is all these people know.

So I reckon we should stop sending charity to Africa, pull all our troops out of all the countries that are at war and let them all get on with killing themselves. if there is no charity aid to plunder the war lords will go out of business pretty quick, nothing will have changed for the general public except alot less of them will be getting killed by bullets, and once all the war lords have gone out of business and here is no more wars then we can work to getting a democracy in these countries! until then they are fcuked.

Charity does begin at home so lets sort our own **** out first, ever heard the saying People in Glass houses shouldn't throw stones? get your own house in order before trying to sort out someone elses.

carl

The village spends $1.2 trillion on military stuff? A village of 100 people? Where did that statistic come from? On that basis, military expenditure of the USA (300 million people) is $3.6*10^18, or $3.6 million million million. I don't think there's that much money in the world!

Abdabz

I remember thinking it was a small world when I was queueing up to go on "Space Mountain" in DisneyWorld/Epcot Florida in 1989... I was on a 5th year (year 11 for you younguns) school trip.
Whilst in the queue singing "Street Tough" by the Rebel MC with my chums, a voice shouted my nickname from back in the queue.
Thinking it was a school holiday compatriot with queue jumping aspirations I looked back, only to find it was a friend NOT with our party but who happened to be in the same country, state, theme park, ride and queue as me on holiday with his parents!!!
Now THAT's a small world...

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Did he jump the queue?