I’ve been looking for ways to mark the official UN declaration of the arrival of the seventh billion citizen on our dear planet when along comes an unsolicited email presentation beautifully presented and stunningly bleak in content. It asks us to imagine that the world has been reduced to a mere one hundred people all living in a single village but significantly in the exact same socio-economic proportions that the real world is today.

The statistics that emerge are sobering to say the least and most instructive in highlighting just what an inhumane disaster zone our planet really is. If it has one failing it is that it does not explicitly point to how we arrived at this appalling state of affairs but then anyone with half a brain will find the answer implicit in the statistics. It does finish on a slightly tacky note but the spirit of the thing is sound enough.

Bloggers of my ilk labour away tirelessly to get our point across but sometimes a more pop version is that much more effective. I’ve no idea where these things are manufactured – possibly a religious, charitable or humanist outfit. Either way its food for thought and in its own way compliments what Sporting Polemics is all about.