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