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