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