Think back to when you were a kid… At what point did you realize that the world extended beyond your family, friends and neighborhood? When did you first hear that there were more than a million people in your home town, 300 million people in the U.S., or 6.6 billion people living on the planet and, at the time, did that number have any meaning to you? When did you really begin to understand the sheer magnitude of 6.6 billion people?
To put it into perspective at the global level, take a look at the image below, consider every dot a person, multiple this by about 100,000 and then you’ll have some idea of how many people inhabit this world along with you.
