#27: The History of the World
We, humans, have been living on planet earth for quite some time and generally think that we are the best thing to ever happen to the world. And whilst we have created some amazing things on this planet, we tend to become slightly consumed by our own greatness that we forget that we are a small blimp in the history of planet earth.
The people that are alive on planet earth today only make up 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on planet earth. That number isn’t as big as we were expecting it to be, which kind of puts things into perspective. Sure, we have had a great influence on things in modern times, but let’s not get carried away…