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- Earth is getting crowded and in 2012 the world's population was around 70.5 billion people
- China and India have have over 1 billion people
- Each person represents 6 million people in this village
- 60 people in Asia, 15 people in Africa, 11 people in Europe, 8 people in the Americas, 5 people in Canada and the United States, 1 person in Oceania
- In this village there are over 6,000 different languages being spoken
- There are 8 common languages
- 9 are children under age 5, 10 are children between 5 and 9, 18 are between 10 and 19, 17 are between 20 and 29, 15 are between 30 and 39, 12 are between 40 and 49, 9 are between 50 and 59, 6 are between 60 and 69, 3 are between between 70 and 79, and 1 is over 79
- The village will increase by 12 people per 10 years, that means that the village as a whole is slowly getting larger, though some countries are getting smaller
- The number of children in the village is shrinking but the number of older people is growing.
- 33 are Christians, 22 are Muslims, 15 are non-religious or theist, 14 are Hindus, 9 practice folk religions, 5 are Buddhist, 2 belong to other global religions
- More people are becoming non-religious
- 31 sheep and goats, 23 cows, bulls and oxen, 15 pigs, 3 camels, 2 horses, 700 chickens
- Not everywhere is it legal to eat horse
- There are 7 times the amount of chickens in the village!
- There is plenty of food in the village for everyone to have an equal share, not everyone gets the proper amount of food though because they commonly can't pay for the food or don't eat the right kind of food
- 30 people in the village do not have a reliable source of food and are hungry some or all the time, 17 people are severely undernourished and are always hungry
- So 47 of the people in the village do not have food security, they can't always be sure that they will have food, the other 53 villagers are food secure and always have enough food to survive
- Not all villagers are so fortunate as to have clean air and water
- 87 people have full access to a source of water either in their homes or within a short distance
- 62 people have access to adequate sanitation while 38 do not
- 68 people breathe clean air while 32 breathe air that is unhealthy because of pollution
- 36 children should go to school, but of these 36 only 30 children go to school with 1 teacher
- The other 6 children who could go to school are instead working, 3 of them work around the hose and the other remaining 3 are child laborers. Some people couldn't even afford to send their kids to school or just sent their boys and kept their girls home to teach them how to work around the hose
- There are 63 adults in the village that could have a job, but only 32 of them are working, 6 people who want to work can't find jobs while another 5 are in school
- Not everyone can read and write, 14 can't read at all. More males were taught to read than women, there are 6 retired adults that don't wish to work
- If all the money in the village were divided equally among each villager each villager would get $10,300, but the money isn't even divided
- The richest 10 people have nearly 85% of the world's wealth, each has $87,500 a year, the poorest 10 people have less than $2 a day
- The other 30 people have something in between, half the people in the village average about $6 a day
- The average cost of food, shelter and other necessities in the village is more than %5,000 a year
- The possessions that the villagers have are 50 radios, 45 televisions, 103 telephones, 28 computers
- There are also 2, trucks, 10 automobiles, and 20 bicycles
- 76 of the people in this village have electricity and 24 people don't
- Most of the people in this village who have electricity only use it at night like a candle
- 17% of the electricity comes from nuclear power
- 10% comes from renewable sources like wind and water
- 73% of the village's energy comes from fossil fuels, such as coal oil and gas, that have to be pumped or mined from underground
- Malaria is a big problem in the village
- Around 1000 B.C.E. 1 person lived in the village, in 500 B.C.E 2 people lived in the village, in 1 C.E. 3 people in the village, In 100 3 people in the village, in 1500 8 people were in the village, in 1650 10 people lived in the village, in 1800 17 people lived in the village, in 1900 32 people lived in the village, and in 2012 100 people lived in the village
- Today the village of 10 is growing at a rate of about 1.15 people per yar
- if there are 100 people in the year 201, there will be more than 101 in 2013 and so on
- Around the year 2150, there will be 250 people in the village
- Experts think that 250 people people is the maximum amount of peope the village can have
- The purpose to move to mars in 2150 is because we would have then reached our maximum population of 250 people
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I really liked the book that we read today. But there were quite a few things that surprised me. Some of these things were on the page that explained about the food. It really surprised me when it said that there was enough food to feed the whole village equally but it wasn't at all fair and some people got more than there share and others got less than their share. That surprised me because it is not fair. This actually upset me because I think that it isn't fair for some people to be able to have way more than enough and others to have way less than needed. I wish this was different so that not so much of the world was starving. This made me want to focus on how people are starving in this world and it makes me want to contribute to an organization that helps the starving people of this world. A way that I might do this is maybe go to a church and donate some food to its food drive and that food will be donated to people who don't have enough food.
- Explain what surprised you about the statistics of our world.
- What upset you? What do you wish were different?
- What made you want to do something to improve a situation?
- Can you do anything to help? If so, what?
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I really liked the book that we read today. But there were quite a few things that surprised me. Some of these things were on the page that explained about the food. It really surprised me when it said that there was enough food to feed the whole village equally but it wasn't at all fair and some people got more than there share and others got less than their share. That surprised me because it is not fair. This actually upset me because I think that it isn't fair for some people to be able to have way more than enough and others to have way less than needed. I wish this was different so that not so much of the world was starving. This made me want to focus on how people are starving in this world and it makes me want to contribute to an organization that helps the starving people of this world. A way that I might do this is maybe go to a church and donate some food to its food drive and that food will be donated to people who don't have enough food.