Celebrate Our Differences Diversity is one of the most powerful forces driving the success of the Human Constituency. Diversity is part of our species healthy core. Diversity has been on the rise throughout human history. We’re learning to celebrate our differences. Geographical barriers and racism once served to preserve human diversity. The xenophobia is deadly. …
Seven Billion Members In less than 200 years, there’s been a 700% increase in the number of people living on earth. The human population of the earth reached a billion people for the first time in the early 1800’s. There were two billion of us around 1927, three billion in 1960, four billion in 1974,…
The prospect of a jobless world is terrifying. Just thinking about it inspires fear that queasy feeling in the pit of our stomachs we wish would go away. Apparently a jobless world is beyond imagining for most of our 7 billion-member human constituency. Explore the Internet, searching for predictions and solutions. You’ll find little speculation…
Six thousand to 7,000 years ago, the pairing of domesticated oxen and primitive plows triggered an agricultural revolution in the fertile Tigris and Euphrates valley. Before the plow, women using sticks and hoes were the managers of Mesopotamian agriculture. After the physically more challenging plow was adopted, men became the managers of agriculture in Mesopotamia….
World adherents of all religions, mid-2010: Christians: 2 billion 281 million Muslims: 1 billion 554 million Hindus: 943 million Buddhists: 463 million Chinese folk-religionists: 454 million Ethno-religionists: 270 million New religionists: 64 million Sikhs :24 million Jews: 15 million Spiritists: 14 million Taoists: 9 million Baha’is: 8 million Confucianists: 7 million Jains: 6 million Shintoists…
Interdependence is obvious. Global coexistence is our common cause.
Loyalty to the human constituency does not undermine or replace any of the many loyalties to which humanity is heir.