> > Its certainly worth a quick peek.
> > http://www.peterrussell.dreamhosters.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
> 
> Nice one!

This is REALLY worth a glance. It puts numbers (estimated, of course) to
most of the concerns we face today. It answer the question of how much
things have changed in the last year. How many people were born, how many
died (and what killed them) and how much forest was cut, replanted and lost
to desert. How many barrels of oil where pumped, how much CO2 released. You
can watch the earths temperature rise. See how many cars vs. bicycles and
computers were produced and how many people are on the internet. For a
better understanding of what it is showing you, click the "NOW" button at
the top.

I love the part about traffic accidents causing 7 times as many deaths as
war. This is world wide, for US figures, cars are MUCH worse
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds_dying.jpg

The biggest argument for mankind being classified as an animal rather than
something more is that we still fail to reason with numbers and instead
think only with our emotions.
http://www.massmind.org/techref/other/911.htm

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