Speed of Earth around Sun: 107,218 km/h; 66,622 mph. <br> <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=OverviewLong" target="_blank">NASA, Solar System Exploration, Earth</a> <br> Speed of Sun Around Galaxy: 13,200 km/h; 9,000 mph; <br> Speed of Galaxy: 2,156,459 km/h; 1.34 million mph <a href="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/AngelaChan.shtml"target="_blank">The Physics Factbook</a> Distance Earth raved in 1 year times age of Earth; Every second: 18.5 miles; Every minute: 1110 miles; Every 24 hrs: 1,598,928 miles; Every year: 583.6 million miles; Since Earth began: 2,684,600 trillion miles Every 24 hrs Earth travels 1,598,928 miles; Every year, 583.6 million miles. <br> <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=OverviewLong" target="_blank">NASA, Solar System Exploration, Earth</a> 66,622 mph times 24 hours; starting time 12:00 AM EST. 12,756 km; 7,926 miles; <br> <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=OverviewLong" target="_blank">NASA, Solar System Exploration, Earth</a> <br> 5.97219E^21 MT (metric tons); <br> <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=OverviewLong" target="_blank">NASA, Solar System Exploration, Earth</a> <br> 1,000 tons per day; <br> <a href="http://www.earthfacts.net/space/meteor-dust-on-earth/>" target="_blank">Earth Facts</a> <br> 4.14 X 10^15 kWh/ year; <br> <a href="http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/science-briefs/ed-stickler/ed-irradiance.html " target="_blank">NASA, Solar Radiation and Earth System</a> Kump et al. The Earth System 3/E. Prentice Hall, USA: 2010 p.2 Kump et al. The Earth System 3/E. Prentice Hall, USA: 2010 p.1 4,564,321,987 years X 365 <a href="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/FelixNisimov.shtml" target="_blank">The Physics Factbook</a> <br> Plus: John Lloyd (Topic Editor) "Biodiversity". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. <br> See <br> Maya Lin <a href="http://www.whatismissing.net/#/home" target="_blank">What is missing?</a> 1050 millimeters per year; 88 millimeters per month; <br> <a href="http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8g.html" target="_blank">Pidwirny, M. (2006). "Global Distribution of Precipitation". Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition</a> 40,000/day; 1,800 right now; <br> <a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tstorm/tst_basics.html" target="_blank">NOAA "Thunderstorm Basics." Last Updated: 15, October 2006</a> <br> Plus: Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Random House, NY 2003 p.260 Lightening strikes the Earth 30 times per second, according to "Annual Lightning Flash Rate". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Breed, Dan and Hensen, Bob, UCAR Communications "Lightning." <br> <a href="http://www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html" target="_blank">John E. Oliver (2005). Encyclopedia of World Climatology. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ISBN 978-1-4020-3264-6.</a> <br> According to the following source, lightening strikes the Earth 100 per second; Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Random House, NY 2003 p.260 For more on lightening, see: <a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/faq/faq_ltg.php/"target="_blank">NOAA 4.14 X 10^15 kWh/ year; <br> <a href="http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/science-briefs/ed-stickler/ed-irradiance.html " target="_blank">NASA, Solar Radiation and Earth System</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> 29.5 billion tons of C02 per year; UNEP Yearbook, 2011, Key Environmental Indicators. "Significant Ozone Hole Remains Over Antarctica" <br> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145106.htm" target="_blank">Science Daily, Oct. 20, 2011</a> <br> Also: NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> UN, Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, p.16, 2012. http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf 1050 millimeters per year; 88 millimeters per month; <br> <a href="http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8g.html" target="_blank">Pidwirny, M. (2006). "Global Distribution of Precipitation". Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition</a> Lightening strikes the Earth 30 times per second, according to "Annual Lightning Flash Rate". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Breed, Dan and Hensen, Bob, UCAR Communications "Lightning." <br> <a href="http://www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html" target="_blank">John E. Oliver (2005). Encyclopedia of World Climatology. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ISBN 978-1-4020-3264-6.</a> <br> According to the following source, lightening strikes the Earth 100 per second; Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Random House, NY 2003 p.260 For more on lightening, see: <a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/faq/faq_ltg.php/"target="_blank">NOAA 40,000/day; 1,800 right now; <br> <a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tstorm/tst_basics.html" target="_blank">NOAA "Thunderstorm Basics." Last Updated: 15, October 2006</a> <br> Plus: Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Random House, NY 2003 p.260 25 billion tons per year. <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8480e/U8480E0D.HTM" target="_blank">FAO, Restoring the land</a> More than 12 million hectares of productive land are lost due to desertification every year, (46,332 sq/ miles; 127/day; 3,805 sq meters/sec.)<br> <a href="http://www.unccd.int/media/pressrel/showpressrel.php?pr=press19_09_11" target="_blank">UN Convention to Combat Desertification.</a> <br> Also: The Earth's land surface is drier overall than it was in the early part of the 20th century. Dry area coverage has been growing at a rate of 1.74 percent per decade since the early 1980s. Dai, A. "Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900-2008." Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (2011). 13 million hectares (50,193 square miles). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 37. 2011; Also: UNEP, Our Planet Nature at Your Service, 2011 4.6 million hectares (17,760 square miles) which is 7% of the world's total planted forests (265 million hectares). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 39. 2011. 2.89 million hectares per year. <br> <a href="http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=462&menu=20" target="_blank">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)</a> Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. A.D.Chapman, "Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World" Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australia, ed. 2, 2009, and <br> <a href="http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/pdf/pr_26_03_12_better_biodiversity.pdf" target="_blank">Measuring biodiversity to manage it, Planet Under Pressure</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). The world loses 12 million hectares of agricultural land each year to land degradation--enough to produce 20 million tons of grain.<br> <a href="http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/World_scientists_define_united_approach_to_tackling_food_insecurity_999.html" target="_blank">Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change</a> <br> Also see: <a href="http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf" target="_blank">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. 2011, in Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). Globally, around 57 million people die each year. The death rate is 7.99 deaths/1,000 population. This rate results in about 107 worldwide deaths per minute or 1.8 deaths every second (July 2012 est.). <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/en/" target=_blank">World Health Organization: Mortality and Global Burden of Disease </a> There are 134 million births per year in the world. This is 19.14 births/1,000 population. This rate results in about 252 worldwide births per minute or 4.2 births every second (2012 est.) CIA Factbook. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2054.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> Human population added per year divided by 365. United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> More than 3.5 billion people (over 51% of the world's total population) live in urban environments; Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, UNEP 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.dwtkns.com/density/" target="_blank">See Urban Density.</a> <br> Also see: <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/pdf/WUP2011_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Urbanization Prospects The 2011 Revision</a> 200,000 people per day are added to urban environments. Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, UNEP 2011. 827 million people live in slums. Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, UNEP 2011. (Note: A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of these conditions: access to improved water; access to improved sanitation; sufficient-living area; durability of housing; security of tenure.) 42 million in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.internaldisplacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/ 15D7ACEC7ED1836EC12578A7002B9B8A/$file/IDMC_natural-disasters_2009-2010.pdf" target="_blank"> Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre</a> 215 million women in developing countries lack access to family planning and therefore cannot fully exercise their reproductive rights. ("Population and Development" Science Magazine, July 29, 2011. p 499.) 578 million women and men in marriages or unions worldwide do not proctice family planning. ("Family Planning: Looking Beyond Access", Science Magazine, March 11, 2011. p. 1265) Cost to provide family planning to meet need: $10.5 billion per year for 10 years. <a href="http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/war-peace/population.shtml" target="_blank">Price of Peace, "Stabilizing World Population"</a> <br> Amount spent in 2011 on cosmetic surgery in the U.S.: $11.43 billion. 1.6 million surgical procedures; $11.43 billion in 2011 spent on cosmetic surgery. <br> <a href="http://www.plasticsurgery.org/news-and-resources/2011-statistics-.html" target="_blank">American Society of Plastic Surgeons annual report</a> 840 million people are undernourished. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 Addendum, <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2011/Addendum_G1.pdf" target="_blank">FAO, World Food Program</a> Plus: "Global Hunger Declining, but Still Unacceptably High," policy brief (Rome, September 2010), <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al390e/al390e00.pdf" target="_blank">U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)</a> <br> Plus <br> <a href="http://www.faostat.fao.org/" target="_blank">FAOSTAT</a> <br> 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, are overweight. (43 million children under the age of 5 are overweight.) The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 200 million men and 300 million women are obese. The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds.<br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese-- the fifth leading cause of global deaths. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> According to the UN FAO, the figure is 3.56 tons/day. (Global Food Loss and Food Waste, p. 4. FAO, 2011.) According to Richard Dobbs, Jeremy Oppenheim, and Fraser Thompson, Mobilizing for a resource revolution, Mckinsey Global Institute, 2012, the amount is 10 million tons per day. Until this discrepancy is resolved, we are going with the FAO figure. My assumption is that the FAO figure is based on "the edible parts of food produced for human consumption" and the McKinsey report is based on total production. 827 million people live in slums. Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, UNEP 2011. (Note: A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of these conditions: access to improved water; access to improved sanitation; sufficient-living area; durability of housing; security of tenure.) 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies. <br> <a href="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf" target="_blank">World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health</a> 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all. Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr23/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO</a> 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease. <br> <a href=""http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf" target="_blank">World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health</a> 1.3 billion people lack access or reliable access to electricity. IEA. 2010. Paris: International Energy Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. <br> <a href="http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/database_electricity10/electricity_database_web_2010.htm" target="_blank">Projected Costs of Generating Electricity</a> 13 million hectares (50,193 square miles). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 37. 2011; Also: UNEP, Our Planet Nature at Your Service, 2011 2.89 million hectares per year. <br> <a href="http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=462&menu=20" target="_blank">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)</a> 42 million in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.internaldisplacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/ 15D7ACEC7ED1836EC12578A7002B9B8A/$file/IDMC_natural-disasters_2009-2010.pdf" target="_blank"> Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre</a> <a href="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/FelixNisimov.shtml" target="_blank">The Physics Factbook</a> <br> Plus: John Lloyd (Topic Editor) "Biodiversity". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. <br> See <br> Maya Lin <a href="http://www.whatismissing.net/#/home" target="_blank">What is missing?</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> "Significant Ozone Hole Remains Over Antarctica" <br> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145106.htm" target="_blank">Science Daily, Oct. 20, 2011</a> <br> Also: NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> 29.5 billion tons of C02 per year; UNEP Yearbook, 2011, Key Environmental Indicators. <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA, Earth's Vital Signs</a> 25 billion tons per year. <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8480e/U8480E0D.HTM" target="_blank">FAO, Restoring the land</a> More than 12 million hectares of productive land are lost due to desertification every year, (46,332 sq/ miles; 127/day; 3,805 sq meters/sec.)<br> <a href="http://www.unccd.int/media/pressrel/showpressrel.php?pr=press19_09_11" target="_blank">UN Convention to Combat Desertification.</a> <br> Also: The Earth's land surface is drier overall than it was in the early part of the 20th century. Dry area coverage has been growing at a rate of 1.74 percent per decade since the early 1980s. Dai, A. "Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900-2008." Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (2011). Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. Dobson, Ken; Holman, John; Roberts, Michael. Physical Science, p.713. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2006. 10 in 2010. World Bank, World Development Report 2011 World Bank, World Development Report 2011. $1.620 trillion in 2010. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 2011. <br> <a href=" http://milexdata.sipri.org" target="_blank">SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2011</a> Reuters. World Nuclear Weapon States. Federation of American Scientists. <br> <a href="http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html" target="_blank">World Nuclear Weapon States</a> <br> Also see Ploughshares <a href="http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report" target="_blank">World Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles </a> $8.1 trillion per year. <br> <a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/global-peace-index-2011/" target="_blank">World Peace Index</a> 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 15–29 years. Science Magazine, May 6, 2011 p. 657. Plus: <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO</a> 50 million last year. Science Magazine, May 6, 2011 p. 657 287,000 per year. World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank, 2012. <br <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pid/10728" target="_blank">Trends In Maternal Mortality: 1990 -- 2010</a> 7.6 million in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf" target="_blank">UNICEF Child Mortality Report</a> <br> One part of the above figure is that 20% of children in the developing world lack access to the vaccines that are readily available in rich countries. Of these children, 1.7 million are expected to die in 2012. About 75% of them live in 10 Asian and African countries. Shot@Life Campaign: Stop Children from Dying of Preventable Diseases <br> <a href="http://www.empowher.com/parenting/content/shotlife-campaign-stop-children-dying-preventable-diseases" target="_blank">Stop Children from Dying of Preventable Diseases</a> 20 billion tons per year. Robert Costanza, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, Richard Norgaard, <br> <a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/An_Introduction_to_Ecological_Economics:_Chapter_1" target="_blank">An Introduction to Ecological Economics</a> World total: 289,000. <br> <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/06/there_will_not_be_blood and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11721/" target="_blank">Foreign Policy</a> 3 billion of the world's population cook over potentially toxic open fires; 2 million deaths annually can be linked to cookfire pollution. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> 500 million hectares of the global landscape are burned annually; J. S. Levin, et. al., Wildland Fires and the Environment: A Global Synthesis, UNEP. Earthquakes, severe storms, floods and other natural disasters resulted in over 29,000 deaths in 2011. "Natural Disasters", The Economist, 3-31-2012, p. 109. See <a href="http://www.gdacs.org/default.aspx" target="_blank">Global Disaster Alert System</a> Earthquakes, severe storms, floods and other natural disasters resulted in total economic losses of $362 billion in 2011, the highest amount on record. "Natural Disasters", The Economist, 3-31-2012, p. 109. Fay Johnston, University of Tasmania. <br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hG-rv-5cagugF69sZSG6QCz5ahOQ?docId=CNG.549911f9dd5fa042d6a25854ddc3b838.7b1" target="_blank">Wildfires kill 339,000 people per year</a> The UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that criminals earn $2.1 trillion annually through human trafficking, drug smuggling, identity theft and other illicit activities. Bloomberg, <br> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-23/un-seeks-corporate-aid-to-fight-2-dot-1-trillion-world-crime-market" target="_blank">UN Seeks Corporate Aid to Fight $2.1 Trillion World Crime Market</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). Human population added per year divided by 365. Total amount of food produced for humans: 3.9 billion tons. <br> Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology for the UN/FAO, <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ags/publications/GFL_web.pdf" target="_blank">Global Food Losses and Food Waste</a> Average human needs around 2,200 calories a day, or 15,400,000,000,000 (15.4 trillion) calories for everyone in the world. 5,621 trillion calories are consumed annually at 2200 calories per day, or 178.2 million per second. UN/FAO 144 million tons per year. FAO. <br> <a href=http://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=2678" target="_blank">FAO</a> Chart based on world population of 7 billion, hungry/malnourished population of 925 million, malnourished/obese population of 1 billion. 840 million people are undernourished. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 Addendum, <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2011/Addendum_G1.pdf" target="_blank">FAO, World Food Program</a> Plus: "Global Hunger Declining, but Still Unacceptably High," policy brief (Rome, September 2010), <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al390e/al390e00.pdf" target="_blank">U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)</a> <br> Plus <br> <a href="http://www.faostat.fao.org/" target="_blank">FAOSTAT</a> <br> Save the Children, A Life Free From Hunger, 2012 http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-malnutrition-killing-300-children-an-hour Report: http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/{9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a}/A%20LIFE%20FREE%20FROM%20HUNGER%20-%20TACKLING%20CHILD%20MALNUTRITION.PDF?msource=wessnmis1010 A Life Free From Hunger, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/{9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a}/A%20LIFE%20FREE%20FROM%20HUNGER%20-%20TACKLING%20CHILD%20MALNUTRITION.PDF?msource=wessnmis1010" target="_blank">A Life Free From Hunger</a> and <br> <a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-malnutrition-killing-300-children-an-hour Report" target="_blank">Save the Children Report</a> 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, are overweight. (43 million children under the age of 5 are overweight.) The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 200 million men and 300 million women are obese. The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds.<br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese-- the fifth leading cause of global deaths. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> According to the UN FAO, the figure is 3.56 tons/day. (Global Food Loss and Food Waste, p. 4. FAO, 2011.) According to Richard Dobbs, Jeremy Oppenheim, and Fraser Thompson, Mobilizing for a resource revolution, Mckinsey Global Institute, 2012, the amount is 10 million tons per day. Until this discrepancy is resolved, we are going with the FAO figure. My assumption is that the FAO figure is based on "the edible parts of food produced for human consumption" and the McKinsey report is based on total production. 222 million tons per year. Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing. The report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, 2012. http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSPReport_unformatted_30Jan.pdf) 230 million tons per year. Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing. The report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSPReport_unformatted_30Jan.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet</a> As little as $0.25 per day provides a person with all of the vitamins and nutrients he or she needs; 925 million undernourished people = $231.25 million per day, $84.4 billion per year. World Food Programme, 2011. These calculations assume that all of the 925 million undernourished have no food, which is not the case. Therefore, the total amount needed to feed all the undernourished people is closer to half this amount, if that. <br> <a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/what-need-know-about-hunger-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews-jan2012-other" target="_blank">World Food Programme, 2011</a> Over $350 billion is doled out by governments around the world. OECD, in The Economist, Sept. 24, 2011, p.118. U.S. consumers spend $67 billion each year on pets, pet products and services.  U.S. Census Bureau 2012 Statistical Abstract. According to the American Pets Products Association, Americans spent $50.8 billion on their pets. <br> <a href="http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1202/pet-spending/flat.html" target="_blank">U.S. Census Bureau 2012 Statistical Abstract</a> $40 billion. "Binge and purge", The Economist, 1-7-2012, p.78 13 million hectares (50,193 square miles). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 37. 2011; Also: UNEP, Our Planet Nature at Your Service, 2011 4.6 million hectares (17,760 square miles) which is 7% of the world's total planted forests (265 million hectares). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 39. 2011. 12 million hectares are lost each year, enough to produce 20 million tons of grain; United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. 2011, in <br> <a href="http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf" target="_blank">Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change</a> 25 billion tons per year. <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8480e/U8480E0D.HTM" target="_blank">FAO, Restoring the land</a> Annual total for the world is $24 billion; $16 billion to retire highly erodible land that cannot sustain cultivation, and $8 billion for implementing conservation practices on the remaining land that is subject to erosion exceeding the natural rate of new soil formation. Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Golfers spend over $24.3 billion on equipment and fees in the U.S. <br> <a href="http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/files/global.pdf" target="_blank">A Global Perspective on the Environmental Impact of Golf</a> 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies. <br> <a href="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf" target="_blank">World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health</a> A worldwide program to provide clean water infrastructure to everyone without access would take an investment in materials, training, and water delivery and sanitation programs of $12 billion per year for 10 years. Such an investment would insure that all of the world's people are provided with enough clean water and sanitation facilities to meet their needs for drinking, cooking, bathing, and waste disposal. Price of Peace. <br> <a href="http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/war-peace/water.shtml" target="_blank">"Clean Water for All"</a> $168 billion per year is spent on alcohol. Forbes. <br> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/02/addictions-most-expensive-biz-cx_tvr_1003addictions.html" target="_blank">"The Most Expensive Addictions"</a> 4.14 X 10^15 kWh/ year; <br> <a href="http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/science-briefs/ed-stickler/ed-irradiance.html " target="_blank">NASA, Solar Radiation and Earth System</a> World total energy consumption is 12,002.4 million tons of oil equilevalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus International Energy Agency. Key World Energy Statistics 2010. World total oil consumption is 4,028.1 million tons oil equilevalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> and <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> and World Bank Global Statistics. 85.51 million bbl/day. CIA World Factbook. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> World oil reserves are 1.468 trillion barrels (January 2011 est.). World production is 31.63 billion barrels per year. CIA World Factbook. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> World oil reserves are 1.468 trillion barrels (January 2011 est.). World production is 31.63 billion barrels per year (1003 barrels per second). CIA World Factbook. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> Total world coal consumption 3,555.8 million tons of oil equilvalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> <br> <a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/coalconsumption.html" target="_blank">U.S. Energy Information Agency</a> Total world natural gas consumption is 2,858.1 million tones of oil equivalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> The world has 184.2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas (estimated as of 1 January 2011). The consumes 3.201 trillion cubic meters per year. CIA World Factbook. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> The world has 184.2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas (estimated as of 1 January 2011). The consumes 3.201 trillion cubic meters per year (101,503 cubic meters per second). CIA World Factbook. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> The world consumes 158.6 million tones of oil equilalent of renewable energy. BP Energy Outlook 2030. The amount of energy that can be harnessed from the world's renewable supplies of energy (including sun, wind, tide, waves, hydro, biomass) using present day technology is more then one-thousand times the current energy consumption of the entire world. <br> One billion years is a fairly conservative estimate, given the Sun's life expectancy of near 10 billion years. In addition, as technology improves, the efficiency of harnessing and the amount of renewable energy that can be harnessed will go up. 19.09 trillion kWh per year. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> 1.3 billion people lack access or reliable access to electricity. IEA. 2010. Paris: International Energy Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. <br> <a href="http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/database_electricity10/electricity_database_web_2010.htm" target="_blank">Projected Costs of Generating Electricity</a> $409 billion in 2010. OECD. <br> <a href="http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_48804623_1_1_1_1,00.html" target="_blank">"OECD and IEA recommend reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment" </a> <br> More info on fossil fuel subsidies at <a href="www.oecd.org/iea-oecd-ffss l" target="_blank">"OECD" </a> <br> and at <a href="www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights24"target=_blank">"World Policy" </a> 29.5 billion tons of C02 per year; UNEP Yearbook, 2011, Key Environmental Indicators. <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA, Earth's Vital Signs</a> More than $6 trillion -10% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP)- is spent each year in the world for energy purposes. <br> <a href="http://www.leonardo-energy.org/world-energy-expenditures" target="_blank">World Energy Expenditures</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). Human population added per year divided by 365. UN, Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet</a> 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, are overweight. (43 million children under the age of 5 are overweight.) The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 200 million men and 300 million women are obese. The meter assumes this figure is rising at a rate of one person every 10 seconds.<br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese-- the fifth leading cause of global deaths. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/" target="_blank">WHO, Obesity and Overweight Fact sheet # 311. March, 2011.</a> $147 billion per year in US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <br> <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/AdultObesity/" target="_blank">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> 840 million people are undernourished. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 Addendum, <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2011/Addendum_G1.pdf" target="_blank">FAO, World Food Program</a> Plus: "Global Hunger Declining, but Still Unacceptably High," policy brief (Rome, September 2010), <br> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al390e/al390e00.pdf" target="_blank">U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)</a> <br> Plus <br> <a href="http://www.faostat.fao.org/" target="_blank">FAOSTAT</a> <br> There are 134 million births per year in the world. This is 19.14 births/1,000 population. This rate results in about 252 worldwide births per minute or 4.2 births every second (2012 est.) CIA Factbook. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2054.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 give birth every year. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs345/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO Factsheet</a> 287,000 per year. World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank, 2012. <br <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pid/10728" target="_blank">Trends In Maternal Mortality: 1990 -- 2010</a> Globally, around 57 million people die each year. The death rate is 7.99 deaths/1,000 population. This rate results in about 107 worldwide deaths per minute or 1.8 deaths every second (July 2012 est.). <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/en/" target=_blank">World Health Organization: Mortality and Global Burden of Disease </a> 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies. <br> <a href="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf" target="_blank">World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health</a> 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all. Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr23/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO</a> 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies. <br> <a href="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf Chart: World Bank data 2011" target="_blank">World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health.</a> . Diarrhoeal disease kills 1.5 million children every year. There are about two billion cases of diarrhoeal disease in the world every year. It is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It is both preventable and treatable. Diarrhoea is also a leading cause of malnutrition in children under five years old. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs330/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO Factsheet</a> The lives of 2.5 million people could be saved every year if there was universal access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation. <br> <a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/govts-could-save-25-mln-lives-with-safer-water-sanitation-wateraid/" target="_blank">WaterAid</a> A worldwide program to provide clean water infrastructure to everyone without access would take an investment in materials, training, and water delivery and sanitation programs of $12 billion per year for 10 years. Such an investment would insure that all of the world's people are provided with enough clean water and sanitation facilities to meet their needs for drinking, cooking, bathing, and waste disposal. Price of Peace. <br> <a href="http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/war-peace/water.shtml" target="_blank">"Clean Water for All"</a> The annual cost of alcohol in the U.S economy is $166 billion. The annual cost of smoking is $157 billion. Forbes. <br> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/02/addictions-most-expensive-biz-cx_tvr_1003addictions.html" target="_blank">"The Most Expensive Addictions"</a> World Bank, World Development Report 2011. 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 15–29 years. Science Magazine, May 6, 2011 p. 657. Plus: <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO</a> 50 million last year. Science Magazine, May 6, 2011 p. 657 There were 80 million unintended pregnancies in 2010, according to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). There are an estimated 200 million couples in developing countries would like to delay or stop childbearing but are not using any method of contraception. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs351/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> 20 million in 2010. U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) A Life Free From Hunger, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/{9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a}/A%20LIFE%20FREE%20FROM%20HUNGER%20-%20TACKLING%20CHILD%20MALNUTRITION.PDF?msource=wessnmis1010" target="_blank">A Life Free From Hunger</a> and <br> <a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-malnutrition-killing-300-children-an-hour Report" target="_blank">Save the Children Report</a> HIV has claimed more than 25 million lives over the past three decades. There were approximately 34 million people living with HIV in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs360/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO HIV Factsheet</a> HIV has claimed more than 25 million lives over the past three decades. There were approximately 34 million people living with HIV in 2010. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs360/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO HIV/AIDS Factsheet</a> 448 million new infections of curable sexually transmitted (syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis) infections occur yearly. WHO. <br>
 <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs110/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> HIV has claimed more than 25 million lives over the past three decades. 1.8 million will die this year. There were approximately 34 million people living with HIV in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs360/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO HIV Factsheet</a> 7.6 million in 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf" target="_blank">UNICEF Child Mortality Report</a> <br> One part of the above figure is that 20% of children in the developing world lack access to the vaccines that are readily available in rich countries. Of these children, 1.7 million are expected to die in 2012. About 75% of them live in 10 Asian and African countries. Shot@Life Campaign: Stop Children from Dying of Preventable Diseases <br> <a href="http://www.empowher.com/parenting/content/shotlife-campaign-stop-children-dying-preventable-diseases" target="_blank">Stop Children from Dying of Preventable Diseases</a> 2.5 million people die from the harmful use of alcohol each year. 320,000 young people between the age of 15 and 29 die from alcohol-related causes, resulting in 9% of all deaths in that age group. Alcohol is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease burden; it is the leading risk factor in the Western Pacific and the Americas and the second largest in Europe. Worldwide total consumption is equal to 6.13 litres of pure alcohol per person 15 years and older. WHO, Data and Statistics, <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/research/en/ "_blank">World Health Organization</a> And Forbes, "The Most Expensive Addictions", <br> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/02/addictions-most-expensive-biz-cx_tvr_1003addictions.html" target="_blank">Forbes</a> Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths). WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> There were 216 million cases of malaria and an estimated 655,000 deaths in 2010. Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> <br> Higher figures (1.2 million) are in "Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis", The Lancet, Feb. 2012, <br> <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60034-8/fulltext" target="_blank">The Lancet</a> 3 billion of the world's population cook over potentially toxic open fires; 2 million deaths annually can be linked to cookfire pollution. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> Urban air pollution causes about 1.2 million deaths every year. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> 346 million people worldwide have diabetes. An estimated 3.4 million people died from consequences of high blood sugar. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en/index.html" target="_blank">WHO Diabetes Fact Sheet</a> <br> The International Diabetes Federation's figures are higher. They claim that diabetes affects 366 million people, killing a total of 4.5 million per year. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. It kills an estimated 1.4 million children under the age of five years every year – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs331/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> 1.7 million people die each year from TB. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> 6 million people die each year from tobacco related causes. WHO. <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/index.htmll" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available. There are 164,000 measles deaths globally each year; WHO <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> More than 2.6 million young people aged 10 to 24 die each year, mostly due to preventable causes. WHO <br> <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs345/en/index.html" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> One billion people lack access to professional health care systems. KPMG International, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, p. 8. <br> <a href="http://www.kpmg.com" target="_blank">Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world</a> $25 billion per year for ten years, allocated for: a) Providing primary health care ($12 billion) through Community Health Workers to all areas in the world that do not have access to health care; Special Child Health Care: ($2.5 billion) for: (1) immunizing 1 billion children in developing world against measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio and tetanus, thereby preventing the death of 6–7 million children/year; (2) providing oral rehydration therapy for children with severe diarrhea; and (3) providing Vitamin A to children who lack it in their diet, thereby preventing blindness in 250,000 children/year; b) Iodine Deficiency Program: $40 million/year for iodine addition to table salt to eliminate iodine deficiency, thereby reducing the 566 million people who suffer from goiter and not adding to the 3 million who suffer from overt cretinism; c) AIDS Prevention and Control Program: $9 billion/year allocated as follows: (1) $4 billion for a global AIDS prevention education program; (2) $4 billion for providing multiple drug therapy to AIDS patients in the developing world; (3) $1 billion for research and development for an AIDS vaccine or cure; d) Prevent and Control Malaria: $3 billion/year for bed nets and other malaria prevention and treatment efforts, with $1 billion spent on R & D for an effective malaria vaccine; e) Diabetes Initiative: $1 billion for education and mass screenings. <br> <a href="http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/war-peace/health.shtml" target="_blank">Price of Peace</a> The annual cost of alcohol in the U.S economy is $166 billion. The annual cost of smoking is $157 billion. Forbes. <br> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/02/addictions-most-expensive-biz-cx_tvr_1003addictions.html" target="_blank">"The Most Expensive Addictions"</a> Total world health expenditure is $7.09 trillion (9.3% of world GDP of $76.25 trillion in PPP) 9.3% from WHO; world GDP from World Bank. The World Bank UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 251. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf"_blank">Global Education Digest 2011,</a> Over two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate. UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 9, 11, <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 9, 11, <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 39, 78: 67.2 million children of primary school age (31.8 million boys and 35.4 million girls) and 71.6 million children of lower secondary school age (34.2 million boys and 37.4 million girls) were out of school, which means that they were enrolled neither in primary nor secondary education. These children represent 10% of the global primary school-age population and 17% of the global lower secondary school-age population. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 56. The total number of secondary teachers grew by 50%, from 20.3 million to 30.4 million between 1990 and 2009. During the same period, the number of primary teachers increased by 27%, from 22.2 million to 28.3 million. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 100. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011 <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 189 <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011, p. 198. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> There are 1.557 billion students in the world; 22% of the world's total population. UNESCO, Global Education Digest 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Education Digest 2011</a> $16 billion; UNESCO, Education Counts-- Towards the Millennium Development Goals, 2011. $31 billion; UNESCO, Education Counts--Towards the Millennium Development Goals, 2011 and WorldWatch Institute. Total education expenditures are 4.4% of GDP. GDP is $78.95 trillion. 4.4% is $3.47 trillion. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). There are 14,853 newspapers in the world with 519 million in paid circulation. <br> 
<a href=" http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2010/11/26/world-press-trends" target="_blank">World Association of Newspapers</a> There were 3,092,740 books published in 2010. R.R. Bowker, Book Industry Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.bowkerinfo.com/pubtrack/AnnualBookProduction2010/ISBN_Output_2002-2010.pdf" target="_blank">Book Industry Statistics 2011</a> 2 million per day, 730 million per year. <br> <a href="http://www.mbaonline.com/the-internet/" target="_blank">A Day in the Internet</a> Total of 9,202 in 2009, latest year data is available. UNESCO Institute of Statistics. PDF download of data: <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/culture/Pages/cinema-data-release-2011.aspx" target="_blank">UNESCO Institute of Statistics</a> and <br> <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/culture/Documents/average-film-production-2009.xls" target="_blank">UNESCO data</a> "One Million Mobile Apps, and Counting at a Fast Pace", New York Times. <br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/technology/one-million-apps-and-counting.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> 1.88 billion in 2011, adding 480 million per year. Pingdom. <br> <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/" target="_blank">Pingdom</a> 349 billion per day, 127.3 trillion per year. Radicati Group, <br> <a href=" http://www.radicati.com/?page_id=46" target="_blank">Radicati Group</a> And Pingdom. <br> <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/" target="_blank">Pingdom. </a> 89.1% of emails are spam. MessageLabs Intelligence: 2010 Annual Security. <br> <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/" target="_blank">Pingdom</a> International Telecommunications Union, ITC Facts and Figures 2010. <br> <a href="www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/FactsFigures2010.pdf" target="_blank">ITC Facts and Figures</a> International Telecommunications Union, ITC Facts and Figures 2011. 2.45 billion users; 35% of world population of 7 billion. <br> <a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/facts/2011/material/ICTFactsFigures2011.pdf" target="_blank">ITC Facts and Figures</a> FACEBOOK USERS IN THE WORLD Facebook Usage and Facebook Growth Statistics By World Geographic Regions <br> <a href="http://www.internetworldstats.com/facebook.htm" target="_blank">Facebook Growth Stats for 2011 - 2012</a> <br> Copyright 2001 - 2012, Miniwatts Marketing Group comScore, State of the Internet, 139 billion/month; 1.668 trillion/year; <br> <a href="http://www.comscore.com/content/download/7213/124977/version/1/file/comScore+US+SOI+Q4+2010.pdf" target="_blank">State of the Internet</a> NetCraft. 555,482,744 sites, Dec. 2011. <br> <a href=http://news.netcraft.com/" target="_blank">NetCraft</a> 137 million active domains, 2012. Increasing 7% per year. DomainTools. <br> <a href="http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/" target="_blank">DomainTools</a> $572.5 billion in 2010, rising to $963 billion 2013. <br> <a href="http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/01/04/global-e-commerce-sales-head-1-trillion-mark" target="_blank">Goldman Sachs, Nothing But Net: 2011 Internet Investment Guide. Internet Retailer</a> Total: $502 billion in 2011. GroupM. <br> <a href="http://www.groupm.com/bulleting/press-release/groupm-forecasts-global-ad-spending-surpass-500-billion-2011" target="_blank">GroupM</a> 5.9 billion in 2011. International Telecommunications Union, ITC Facts and Figures 2011. <br> <a href=" http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/facts/2011/material/ICTFactsFigures2011.pdf" target="_blank">ITC Facts and Figures</a> 250 million per day, 91.25 billion per year. <br> <a href="http://www.mbaonline.com/the-internet/" target="_blank">The Internet</a> One hour every second is uploaded to YouTube. <br> <a href="http://www.onehourpersecond.com/" target="_blank">The Internet</a> 3 billion views per day. Business Marketing Association. <br> <a href="http://www.bma-stl.org/_blog/BMA_B2B_Marketing_Blog" target="_blank">Business Marketing Association</a> 180 million active gamers in US; 429 million in world; worldwide: 3 billion hours/week; 156 billion hours/year. <br> <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/04/11/135248010/how-to-save-the-world-one-video-game-at-a-time" target="_blank">NPR</a> Total languages in the world: 6,909, according to Ethnologue, SIL International, <br> <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=area" target="_blank">SIL International</a> Endangered languages: 2,540 accordingto UNESCO and their <br> <a href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/" target="_blank">Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger</a> There are 14 billion devices connected to the internet in 2012. By 2020 there will be 50 billion. Increase rate is 4 billion per year. CISCO, "50 billion devices online by 2020", There is some dispute regarding these numbers: Cisco predicts there will be 50 billion devices by 2020. IBM recently put the number at 1 trillion devices by 2015. <br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9051590/50-billion-devices-online-by-2020.html" target="_blank">CISCO</a> <br> <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/50-billion-devices-connected-by-2020-2012-02-08" target="_blank">IBM/Markle Foundation</a> Also see: <br> <a href=" http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MarkleFoundation/ad639ba64d/da4dbc3253/9050e57376" target="_blank">Markle Foundation</a> The digital universe is expanding at the rate of 5 trillion bits (5 million megabytes) per second in storage. <br> <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_dysonqa/all/1"target="_blank">George Dyson, Wired Magazine</a> 2 trillion transistors are being added to the world every second. <br> <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_dysonqa/all/1" target="_blank">George Dyson, Wired Magazine</a> The universe of smart connected devices-- PCs, media tablets, and smartphones--saw shipments of more than 916 million units and revenues surpassing $489 billion dollars in 2011. For 2012, sales should top 1.1 billion units. <br> <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23398412" target="_blank">International Data Corporation 2012 </a> There are 1.2 billion telephone main lines in the world, and 5.4 billion mobile subscribers. CIA World Factbook <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA World Factbook</a> United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> the official United Nations population estimates and projections prepared by the United Nations Population Division. According to most estimates, world population reached 7 billion October 31, 2011. This meter was set according to that number and time. The world population growth rate is 1.096%. This rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2012 est.). United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> Total world resource use is 59 billion tons per year. <br> <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Global_resource_consumption_to_triple_by_2050_UN_999.html" target="_blank">Global resource consumption to triple by 2050: UN</a> $846 billion per year. KGMP, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.kpmg.com/US/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Press-Releases/Pages/Sustainability-Megaforces-Impact-Business.aspx" target="_blank">Expect the Unexpected</a> 265 million tons produced in 2010 with 15% annual growth. UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 50 <br> <a href="http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf" target="_blank">Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment</a> $65 trillion, IMF, as published in The Economist, 5-3--2011. 1.95 billion people will be part of the global middle class by the end of 2012. The global middle class is defined as all those living in households with daily per capita incomes of between US$10 and US$100 in purchasing power parity terms. Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing. The report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSPReport_unformatted_30Jan.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet</a> 150 million people are being added to the global middle class this year. The global middle class is defined as all those living in households with daily per capita incomes of between US$10 and US$100 in purchasing power parity terms. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSPReport_unformatted_30Jan.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing. The report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, 2012</a> <br> Also: Richard Dobbs, Jeremy Oppenheim, and Fraser Thompson, Mobilizing for a resource revolution, Mckinsey Global Institute, 2012. "From 1980 to 2009, the global middle class grew by around 700 million people, to 1.8 billion, from roughly 1.1 billion. Over the next 20 years, it is likely to grow by an additional 3 billion, to nearly 5 billion people. The world has never before witnessed income growth of this speed and magnitude: China and India are doubling their real per capita incomes at about ten times the pace England achieved during the Industrial Revolution and at around 200 times the scale." Therefore: 3 billion over over 20 years = 150 million per year = 4.76 per second. <br> <a href="https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/PDFDownload.aspx?ar=2908&srid=27" target="_blank">Mobilizing for a resource revolution</a> Living on $1.25 per day: World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2011, p.13. An estimated 1.29 billion people in 2010 lived below $1.25 a day, equivalent to 22 percent of the population of the developing world. By contrast, in 1981, 1.94 billion people were living in extreme poverty. World Bank, 2012. <br> <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGLOMONREP2011/Resources/7856131-1302708588094/GMR2011-CompleteReport.pdf " target="_blank">Global Monitoring Report</a> Also: <br> <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23130032~ pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html?cid=ISG_E_WBWeeklyUpdate_NL" target="_blank">Global Monitoring Report</a> World bank 300 million credit card transaction per day. Global Pulse, Taking the Global Pulse, <br> <a href="http://issuu.com/unglobalpulse/docs/globalpulsebook-finalprint?utm_source=United+Nations+Global+Pulse+List&utm_campaign=4ce9b530b5-Global_Pulse_February_2012_Update2_22_2012&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Taking the Global Pulse</a> GWP (gross world product): $70.16 trillion. <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> Globally, poorest 10% has 2.7%. richest 10% has 27.8%. CIA Factbook <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> The UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that criminals earn $2.1 trillion annually through human trafficking, drug smuggling, identity theft and other illicit activities. Bloomberg, <br> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-23/un-seeks-corporate-aid-to-fight-2-dot-1-trillion-world-crime-market" target="_blank">UN Seeks Corporate Aid to Fight $2.1 Trillion World Crime Market</a> 4.14 X 10^15 kWh/ year; <br> <a href="http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/science-briefs/ed-stickler/ed-irradiance.html " target="_blank">NASA, Solar Radiation and Earth System</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> 29.5 billion tons of C02 per year; UNEP Yearbook, 2011, Key Environmental Indicators. <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA, Earth's Vital Signs</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> "Significant Ozone Hole Remains Over Antarctica" <br> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145106.htm" target="_blank">Science Daily, Oct. 20, 2011</a> <br> Also: NASA <br> <a href=" http://climate.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Earth's Vital Signs</a> World total energy consumption is 12,002.4 million tons of oil equilevalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus International Energy Agency. Key World Energy Statistics 2010. 13 million hectares (50,193 square miles). UNEP, Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment, p. 37. 2011; Also: UNEP, Our Planet Nature at Your Service, 2011 500 million hectares of the global landscape are burned annually; J. S. Levin, et. al., Wildland Fires and the Environment: A Global Synthesis, UNEP. World total oil consumption is 4,028.1 million tons oil equilevalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> and <br> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html" target="_blank">CIA Factbook</a> and World Bank Global Statistics. Total world coal consumption 3,555.8 million tons of oil equilvalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> <br> <a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/coalconsumption.html" target="_blank">U.S. Energy Information Agency</a> Total world natural gas consumption is 2,858.1 million tones of oil equivalent. BP Energy Outlook 2030. Plus: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2011. <br> <a href="http://www.iea.org" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> $409 billion in 2010. OECD. <br> <a href="http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_48804623_1_1_1_1,00.html" target="_blank">"OECD and IEA recommend reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment" </a> <br> More info on fossil fuel subsidies at <a href="www.oecd.org/iea-oecd-ffss l" target="_blank">"OECD" </a> <br> and at <a href="www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights24"target=_blank">"World Policy" </a> Total world resource use is 59 billion tons per year. <br> <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Global_resource_consumption_to_triple_by_2050_UN_999.html" target="_blank">Global resource consumption to triple by 2050: UN</a> "Improving Recycling Markets." OECD Environment Program. Paris, OECD, 2006. <br> <a href="http://www.oecd.org/document/14/0,3343,en_2649_34395_37757966_1_1_1_1,00.html" target="_blank"> OECD Environment Program</a> Every year climate change leaves over 300,000 people dead. The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis, Human Impact Report Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum 2010. <br> <a href=" http://www.ghf-ge.org/human-impact-report.pdf" target="_blank">The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis</a> 25 million people seriously affected by climate change. The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis, Human Impact Report Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum 2010. <br> 
<a href="http://www.ghf-ge.org/human-impact-report.pdf" target="_blank">Human Impact Report Climate Change</a> Economic losses from climate change were $125 billion. The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis, Human Impact Report Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum 2010. <br> <a href="http://www.ghf-ge.org/human-impact-report.pdf" target="_blank">Human Impact Report Climate Change</a> "Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually" <br> <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/reports/CU_Boulder_study_shows_global_glaciersice_caps_shedding_ billions_of_tons_of_mass_annually_999.html" target="_blank">TerraDaily</a> To remove 1.6 billion metric tons of carbon per year will need 400 million of acres of marginal lands reforested or afforetsed over 10 years. Each tree removes approximately 13 lbs. of carbon/year (http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm#carbon); an acre, planted with 800 trees removes 10,400 lbs or 4.73 metric tons/acre. Assuming 4.0 metric tons carbon sequestration = 1.6 billion tons. This would cost an estimated $8 billion per year. Seedlings cost $40 per thousand, as per World Bank estimates; typical planting density is roughly 800 per acre, so seedlings cost is $32 per acre. Labor costs for planting trees are high, but with at least some of the labor consisting of locally mobilized volunteers, the assumption is that the trees can be planted for a total of $200 per acre, including both seedlings and labor. 400 million acres planted over the next 10 years, is 40 million acres per year at $200/acre for an annual expenditure of $8 billion. Data derived from Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, and "Benefits of Trees In Urban Areas", <br> <a href="http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm#carbon" target="_blank">Benefits of Trees In Urban Areas</a> KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). (2011). UN DESA, New York. <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision.</a> <br> According the British Petroleum, population will grow by 1.4 billion people over the next 20 years. BP Energy Outlook 2030, 2012. <br> According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there will be 8.259 billion people in 2030. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <br> <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision</a> KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). (2011). World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. UN DESA, New York. <br> Over the next two decades, the population living in urban areas is projected to grow by another 1.4 billion — from 3.5 billion in 2010 to 4.9 billion in 2030 — with most growth taking place in medium-sized cities (those with populations of between 500,000 and 1 million people) in developing countries. UN, Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, p.27, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing</a> UN, Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet</a> <br> Life expectancy is up over 200% since 1900, and it has gone up in every country in the world. In 1900, the average global life expectancy was 31. (In the U.S. it was 47.) In 2000, global life expectancy was at 66.1. Since 1950, global life expectancy has gone up 35%. In 1950, it was 48 years, in 2001, it was 66.7. (UNDP, Human Development Report 2003, p. 240). Such an increase is unprecedented since life began on this planet. (China's life expectancy increase has been even more dramatic: In 1930, life expectancy in China was 24; in 2000 it is close to 70-- a three-fold increase in two generations.) KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37, Derived from: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (2011). World Agriculture Towards 2015/2030. FAO, Rome. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Oxfam. (2011). Growing a Better Future, Food Justice in a Resource-Constrained World. OXFAM, Oxford. U.S. obesity rate is currently 36% of the adult population. It will be 42% in 2030. Current global obesity rate is 14% (1 billion of the 7+ billion people in the world). It is assumed that the global obesity rate will increase at the same rate as the U.S. <br> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-obesity-20120508,0,4332050.story" target="_blank">42% of American adults will be obese by 2030</a> KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG). (2009). Charting Our Water Future. WRG, New York. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: World Economic Forum (WEF). (2009). Thirst Energy: Water and Energy in the 21st Century. WEF, Geneva. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: International Energy Agency (IEA). (2011). World Energy Outlook 2011. IEA, Paris. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: US Energy Information Administration (EIA). (2011). International Energy Outlook 2011. EIA, Washington DC. Coal production will increase from 3,731 billion tons oil equivalent (btoe) in 2010 to 4,573 btoe in 2030. BP Energy Outlook 2030, BP, 2012. Oil production will increase from 3,914 billion tons oil equivalent (btoe) in 2010 to 4,512 btoe in 2030. BP Energy Outlook 2030, BP, 2012. Gas production will increase from 2,881 billion tons oil equivalent (btoe) in 2010 to 4,328 btoe in 2030, BP Energy Outlook 2030, BP, 2012. Renewables production will increase from 159 billion tons oil equivalent (btoe) in 2010 to 860 btoe in 2030. BP Energy Outlook 2030, BP, 2012. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI). (2009). Overconsumption? Our Use of the World’s Natural Resources. SERI, Vienna. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (2008). OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 – Executive Summary. OECD, Paris. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Size of global middle class increases from 1.8 billion to 3.2 billion by 2020 and to 4.9 billion by 2030. Global middle class is defined as all those living in households with daily per capita incomes of between US$10 and US$100 in purchasing power parity terms. UN, Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, 2012. <br> <a href="http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf" target="_blank">Resilient People, Resilient Planet</a> KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Kharas, Homi. (2010). OECD Development Centre Working Paper No. 285: The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries. OECD, Paris. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Standard Chartered Bank. (2010). The Super-Cycle Report. Standard Chartered Bank, London. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2007). Synthesis Report. IPPC, Geneva. KPMG, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, 2012, p. 37. Derived from: US Energy Information Administration (EIA). (2011). International Energy Outlook 2011. EIA, Washington DC. The volume of air breathed in or out in the average human breath is about 1 liter. The average human takes 8 breaths per minute, and breathes in and out 11,520 liters per day. 7 billion people breathe 29,433.6 trillion liters per year, or 29.43 trillion cubic meters per year. Every human has 24 hours per day. 7+ billion humans = 24 hours X 7 billion. 7+ billion (current world population) times 1 each second (assuming 60 heartbeats per minute) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that criminals earn $2.1 trillion annually through human trafficking, drug smuggling, identity theft and other illicit activities. Bloomberg, <br> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-23/un-seeks-corporate-aid-to-fight-2-dot-1-trillion-world-crime-market" target="_blank">UN Seeks Corporate Aid to Fight $2.1 Trillion World Crime Market</a> 676 executions were known to have been carried out worldwide in 2011, plus "thousands" more in China. Assuming 2,000 executions in China, the world total is 2,676. <br> <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ACT50/001/2012/en/241a8301-05b4-41c0-bfd9-2fe72899cda4/act500012012en.pdf" target="_blank">Amnesty International, Death Sentences and Executions, 2011</a> <br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world#data" target="_blank">The Guardian, Death penalty statistics, country by country</a> Human trafficking is a $32 billion per year business. 2 out of every 3 victims are women. 2.4 million people are victims of human trafficking. <br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-says-24-million-people-are-victims-of-human-trafficking-and-most-are-sexually-exploited/2012/04/03/gIQAV1g1tS_story.html " target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> 2.4 billion people live under circumstances of severely limited civil and political freedoms. KPMG International, Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, p. 8. <br> <a href="http://www.kpmg.com" target="_blank">Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world</a>

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Sustainability
Justice
Efficiency
Age of Life on Planet Earth
Type of Spacecraft/Planet
Life Forms (Species)
Thunderstorms Right Now on Earth
Lightening Strikes Today
Rainfall (entire Earth surface) today
Sea Ice Mass
C02
Sea Level
Global Temperature
Ozone Hole
Carbon Dioxide Added to Atmosphere so far this year
Topsoil Eroded From World Croplands this year
Desert Land Formed by Mismanagement this year
Marine Fish Catch this year
Adequately Nourished People
Hungry/Undernourished People
Food Produced for Human Consumption
Food Per Person per day
Overweight Adults
Obese People
Food Lost or Wasted this year
Adults Dying as Result of Overweight or Obesity so far this year
Total Waste Production
Births this year
Earthquakes this year (2.0 to 3.4 Richter scale)
Earthquakes this year (3.5 to 4.8 Richter scale)
Earthquakes this year (4.9 to 5.4 Richter scale)
Earthquakes this year (5.5 to 6.1)
Earthquakes this year (6.2-6.9)
Earthquakes this year (7.0 to 7.9)
Minerals, Ores, Fossil Fuels, Plant Materials Used this year
Deaths this year
People Living in Urban Areas
People Added to Urban Areas this year
Population Living in Slums
Cost of Treating Illnesses Associated with Obesity
Human Energy Consumption this year
World Oil Consumption so far this year
World Coal Consumption this year
World Natural Gas Consumption this year
Fossil Fuel Subsidies so far this year
People Without Access to Clean Water
Net Population Increase this year
Sea Food Production
People Without Access to Electricity
Electricity Consumption so far this year
Forest Lost this year (total)
Land Lost to Urbanization so far this year
Forced to Flee Homes Due to Natural Disasters
Internet Searches this year
Video Uploaded to YouTube this year
Books Published so far this year
Text Messages Sent this year
Movies Released so far this year
Emails Sent so far this year
Spam Emails Sent this year
Email Users
Websites
Online Spending this year
Advertising Spending this year
Internet Users
Mobile-Cellular Subscriptions
People Dying in Wars so far this year
Civil Wars right now
Military Expenditures so far this year
Time Spent Playing Computer & Online Games this year
Killed in Traffic Accidents so far this year
Injured in Traffic Accidents so far this year
Maternal Deaths so far this year
Unintended Pregnancies so far this year
Unsafe Abortions so far this year
Children Under The Age of 5 Who Died From Preventable Causes so far this year
Added to Global Middle Class this year
Human Waste Added to Oceans so far this year
Goods and Services Produced in World this year
Spent On Dieting in U.S. so far this year
Cost of Violence to Global Economy
People Dying From Water-Related Disease so far this year
People Without Access to Sanitation
Deaths Due To Climate Change so far this year
Seriously Affected by Climate Change this year
Economic Losses Due to Climate Change this year
Videos Viewed on YouTube so far this year
Apps Released so far this year
Global Middle Class
Domain Names
Forests Planted this year
Plastic Production this year
Global Temperature Increase Since 1895
Living on Less Than $1.25 per day
Living on $10 per day or less
CO2
Happiness
Food Wasted by Consumers in High-Income Countries vs. Food Production of sub-Sah
Food Wasted by Consumers in High-Income Countries
Entire Food Production of sub-Saharan Africa
Deaths from Malaria so far this year
Homicides, World total so far this year
Malnutrition-Caused Child Deaths
IQ Points Lost Due to Iodine Deficiency in Developing Countries
Ice Loss From Greenland and Antarctica per year
Environmental Costs of Industry
Web-Connected Devices
CO2 parts per million
Deaths from Cookfire Pollution so far this year
Children Enrolled in Primary School
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)
Children Enrolled in Primary School (% & number)
Children Enrolled in Secondary School (% & Number)
Children of Primary & Secondary School Age Out of School
Primary & Secondary School Teachers
Children Enrolled in Pre-Primary School
College Students
Illiterate Adults
Hours Spent in School by all the world 's students so far this year
College Teachers
International Students
Total Number of Students, all levels
Total Number Hours in School so far this year
Total Number of Years in School for all students so far this year
Amount Needed To Send All Children to School in Low-Income Countries
Amount Spent on Ice Cream by Europeans and Americans
People with Access to Clean Water & Sanitation
Deaths from Alcohol Abuse so far this year
AIDS/HIV
Credit Card Transactions so far this year
Amount Spent on Pets in U.S. so far this year
HIV/AIDS Infections
Deaths from Cancer so far this year
Deaths from AIDS so far this year
Deaths from Urban Air Pollution so far this year
Deaths from Diabetes so far this year
Deaths from Measles so far this year
Deaths from Pneumonia so far this year
Deaths from Tuberculosis (TB) so far this year
Deaths from Tobacco so far this year
Births to Teenage Girls so far this year
Youth Deaths so far this year
Deaths from Diarrhoeal disease so far this year
Cost to Provide Basic Health Care to all without access
Cost of Alcohol and Tobacco use in the U.S so far this year
Cost to Make Family Planning Universally Available
Amount Spent in U.S. on Cosmetic Surgery
Cost to Provide Clean Water to those without access
Amount Spent on Alcohol in the U.S. so far this year
Population Growth 2010-2030
Population Growth Age 65 and Older 2010-2030
Urban Population Increase 2010-2030
Food Demand 2010-2030
Food Prices 2010-2030
Water Withdrawals 2010-2030
Population Under Water Stress 2010-2030
Energy Demand 2010-2030
Electricity Generation 2010-2030
Materials Extraction 2010-2030
Lost Forest Cover (Deforestation) 2010-2030
Human Ecological Footprint 2010-2030
Middle Class Purchasing Power 2010-2030
Climate Change: Temperature Rise 2010-2030
Climate Change: C02 Emissions 2010-2030
GDP Increase 2010-2030
Blog Posts so far this year
Photos Uploaded to Facebook so far this year
Subsidies to Agriculture so far this year
Wildfires so far this year
Digital Universe Expansion
Transistors Added to World
Coal Production 2010-2030
Oil Production 2010-2030
Gas Production 2010-2030
Renewable Energy 2010-2030
Newspapers in World
Amount Needed to Stop Erosion from World Croplands
Amount Spent on Golf in the U.S.
Cost to Plant Trees for Carbon Sequestration
People Added to Global Middle Class 2010-2030
Age of Child Born in 2012 Will Be in 2030
Increase in Urban Land Use 2010-2030
Number of Species
Years for Ozone Layer to Return to Normal
Increased Life Expectancy Since 1990
Life Expectancy Increase 2010-2030
Smart Connected Devices Sold so far this year
Agriculture Land Lost to Land Degradation
Carbon Taken Out of Atmosphere by Land Plants so far this year
Carbon Taken Out of Atmosphere by Ocean Phytoplankton so far this year
Spent on Energy so far this year
Spent on Health Care so far this year
Agricultural Land Lost to Land Degradation so far this years
Air Breathed by Humans so far this year (volume)
Deaths from Natural Disasters
Economic Losses from Natural Disasters
Capital Punishment
Human Trafficking Business so far this year
Distance You Have Traveled Since Opening This Page
Number of Inhabited Ships like SS Earth in Known Universe
Amount of Time on Earth
People Killed by Wildfires so far this year
Human Heartbeats so far this year
Lives That Could Be Saved If Everyone Had Access to Safe Water and Sanitation
Education Expenditures (Government)
Gross World Product
Household Income or Consumption by Percentage Share:
Oil Consumption (barrels per day)
Oil Reserves-- Remaining Time
Time Spent Online
Oil Reserves--Remaining Amount
Gas Reserves-- Remaining Time
Gas Reserves--Remaining Amount
Telephones
Renewable Energy Consumption so far this year
Renewable Energy Reserves--Remaining Amount & Time
Global Crime profit so far this year
Sexually Transmitted Diseases so far this year
Nuclear Weapons
Facebook Users
Living on Less Than $2.00 per day
People Severely Restricted in Civil and Political Freedoms
People Lacking Access to Professional Health Care Systems
Obese People 2010-2030


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