Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Taking the Fifth
Stephen Jay Gould sez: “I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
On that note...
The richest one-fifth of the world’s humans consume 58% of total energy
The poorest one-fifth of the world’s humans consume less than 4%
The richest one-fifth have 74% of all telephone lines
The poorest one-fifth have 1.1%
(Half the humans on the planet have never made a phone call...half the humans I know can’t go more than 10-15 minutes without using their damn cell phone at least once)
The richest one-fifth consume 84% of all paper
The poorest one-fifth consume less than 1%
The richest one-fifth own 87% of all vehicles
The poorest one-fifth own less than 1%
Tyler Durden sez: “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
That’s all, folks...
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Astoria celebrates Italy’s victory:
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