¶ Human Unsettlement
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Human Unsettlement:
"As World War I began in 1914, the average American walked 1,100 miles a year and rode 300 miles a year in some vehicle. In 1976 the average human in the United States is still walking 1,100 miles a year, but is averaging 20,000 miles by vehicle.
"There were no airplanes in 1900… In 1976, the human traffic going in and out of the airports is greater than the human railway traffic of 1900.
“Because of the historical well known obstacles to such an exclusively science-fiction idea as that of ‘travelling around the world in 80 days,’ or any number of days, the concept was held to be practically impossible. However, the turn of the century advances in steamships and railroads changed the situation. In 1910, the retiring Harvard President, Dr. Eliot, made a trip around the world which all the world’s newspapers followed reporting every incident of such an extraordinary human venture. In 1976, a large proportion of all the college graduates in their 20s and 30s have become world-around citizens. Ninety percent of the 1900s world humans were illiterate. Ninety percent”
¶ Citations
- ACCOMPLISHING HUMANKIND, pp. 16-17; 20 Sep’76
