Memory Game Memoria: Ser Humano y SustentabilidadOnline version Descubre conceptos clave sobre la relación entre el ser humano y la sustentabilidad. by HECTOR GARCIA The astonishing growth in prosperity is one of the greatest events ever. Today it is more like 1 in 200. They grew most of their own food. Today we expect to live to be about eighty. They wore the same home-made underwear over and over. Streets and alleys were open sewers. There were no toilets. We grow to be four inches taller than we were just 250 ago. Most of our ancestors lived in huts with dirt floors and thatched roofs. They made a lot of their own clothing. They built their own dwellings. Everything was infested with insects and rodents. Life expectancy was around thirty years. Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. Our ancestors ate gruel The enrichment of the last centuries is the hockey stick of human prosperity One in four kids would die before the age of 5. The filth was horrible and often toxic.