There are 8 billion people on the planet today, a number so vast as to be almost unimaginable. In a world this complex, it’s easy to shrug off the global issues and focus on our own lives, and what is in front of our faces.
Back in 2021 I was thinking about a different way to approach this. What if our global population could be shrunk down to a size that we can all get our heads around? I was drawn to the idea of the world as a “global village”, which is the sort of phrase you often hear without thinking much about, and I wondered: what if the whole world was an actual village?
