Wakeup Calls!!!

• Global consumption according to affluence consumption of the richest fifth of the population and the poorest fifth is: meat & fish 45% and 5%, energy 58% and 4%, telephone lines 74% and 1.5%, paper 84% and 1.1%, vehicles 87% and 1% respectively.
  
• Every year, the US exports about 10 million obsolete computers to Asia to be disposed of as hazardous waste. On average, each computer contains 13 pounds of plastic, 3 pounds of lead, enough cadmium to pollute 260,000 gallons of drinking water, enough chromium to pollute 10,000 gallons, and enough mercury to pollute 260,000 gallons.
  
• A child born in the industrial world consumes and pollutes more over his or her lifetime than do 40 children born in developing countries.
  
• 9 out of 10 fatalities during war are civilians. About half of the victims are children. 8 out of 10 war refugees are women and children
  
• 1.2 million Iraqi people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died due to the scarcity of food and medicine, since the commencement of UN sanctions in 1990.
  
• Nearly half of all countries who have implemented IMF sponsored ‘Structural Adjustment Programs’ have seen an average decline in real per capita education and health spending.
  
• 90% of urban sewage in the developing world is discharged into rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways without any treatment.
  
• 95% of all HIV-infected people live in developing countries.
  
• If present consumption patterns continue, by the year 2025, two out of every three people on earth will live in water-stressed conditions.