“I was not born in America. America was born on my land.”
“There are 8.2 billion human beings on the planet this year (2024), and the projection for 2050 is 9.7 billion. A peak of 10.3 billion inhabitants is expected in the mid of 2080s, at which point the world population is expected to head downwards reaching 10.2 billion in 2100. Whereas the populations of some countries continue to grow quickly, other countries are seeing population shrinkage. Concomitantly, the world’s population is aging as life expectancy at the global scale continues to rise and fertility to fall. These are some of the major takeaways from the latest United Nations world population estimates and projections (World Population Prospects: The 2024 Revision).”
—INED. Continue reading here
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.”
—UDHR. Continue reading here
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of mapmakers.”
—Ken Wilber