"I appreciate…the hope Plan B communicates by pointing out so
many things that are already being done around the globe."
—Roland Saher, economics teacher on Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to
Save Civilization. Chapter 6. Early Signs of Decline: Our
Socially Divided World The social and economic gap between the
world’s richest 1 billion people and its poorest 1 billion has
no historical precedent. Not only is this gap wide, it is
widening. The poorest billion are trapped at a subsistence level
and the richest billion are becoming wealthier with each passing
year. The economic gap can be seen in the contrasts in
nutrition, education, disease patterns, family size, and life
expectancy. World Health Organization (WHO) data indicate that
roughly 1.2 billion people are undernourished, underweight, and
often hungry. At the same time, roughly 1.2 billion people are
overnourished and overweight, most of them suffering from
excessive caloric intake and exercise deprivation. So while 1
billion people worry whether they will eat