The Arithmetic of compassion - David Ulansey

Practical number crunching over at Reality sandwich. What would be an equal share of world resources?

David Ulansay writes: Ever since I was a child, I have been searching for a certain number: namely, the figure for the annual Gross World Product (GWP). The GWP is the value of all goods and services produced each year by the entire human species, and the reason I was searching for this number as a child is that I wanted to take it and divide it by the number of people in the world, so that I would know what each human being was actually entitled to if the world's resources were divided fairly and equitably. keep reading ...

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