Memory Memoria: Ser Humano y SustentabilidadVersión en línea Descubre conceptos clave sobre la relación entre el ser humano y la sustentabilidad. por HECTOR GARCIA We grow to be four inches taller than we were just 250 ago. The filth was horrible and often toxic. The astonishing growth in prosperity is one of the greatest events ever. They wore the same home-made underwear over and over. Today we expect to live to be about eighty. Today it is more like 1 in 200. There were no toilets. They built their own dwellings. They grew most of their own food. Most of our ancestors lived in huts with dirt floors and thatched roofs. Streets and alleys were open sewers. Life expectancy was around thirty years. One in four kids would die before the age of 5. They made a lot of their own clothing. The enrichment of the last centuries is the hockey stick of human prosperity Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. Everything was infested with insects and rodents. Our ancestors ate gruel
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