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