does anybody care?
I learned a couple of weeks back that every second of the day ( and night for that matter) 4.1 new people arrive in this world. Newborns, Babies, of all colors, races etc., human beings.
The same little news item also claims that every 1.8 seconds somebody dies.
Old age, Murder, Famine, Hunger War...Whatever every 1.8 seconds, zip, another one bites the dust.
So I started figuring, these would be my calculations I could be off a bit but as a point of interest, here it is:
Current World Population is estimated to be 6.5 Billion ( almost half of this in Asia alone).
So if you figure 2.3 added per second x 60 (hour) x 24 (day) x 365 (year) I come up with about 75,000,000 a year... That is 75 Million
Or if this is easier to grasp over 200,000 a day...
In the meantime, we are burning the rain forests the glaziers are melting, haven't heard about the ozone layer lately, we are using up whatever oil and gas may be left in the ground. We are also creating nuclear waste and don't know what to do with it..
Quite frankly I am not a gloom and doom kind of guy but this must make you think.
1 comment:
1) It doesnt make good sense that one leaves a lot of non-biodegrable stuff on the earth.
2) Why arent people co-operating with eachother on most important issues- like when there is an abundance of everything including food and clothes and money, still half the world dont have it adequately and live in very poor, unhygenic conditions. How is that that we live together -all of us on the earth, but still live without mutual give and take.
3) After oil runs out - and I want oil run out because we aren't using resources of the earth judiciously - perhaps there will be world wide calamity unfortunately because nobody isprepared for the change.
4) I dont know if there is any meaningful job on the earth to do and a good future for me and the rest of the people on the earth.
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