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One-third (2,3bn) of the world’s population is under-fed and starving.
Over 500 million people are living in “absolute poverty”.
There are 1,139,524,741 overweight people today (August 2009).
Declining crop yield could leave hundreds of millions without the ability to produce sufficient food.
2.5-3 billion people have no access to sanitation; no local sewage treatment installed!
About 200 million tons of human waste is discharged untreated into watercourses every year.
4-5 billion people live under extremely poor economical conditions.
Over 1 billon people have no housing; and 2 billion people don’t have electricity.
Approx. 1 billion have no access to health services and another 4bn only to poor health services.
1 billion analphabets; 4 billion people have insufficient education, are not prepared for the future.
People with no access to safe drinking water (August 2009): 1,403,227,749.
Around 11 million children under the age of 5 die every year – half of them due to malnutrition.
Every year 15 million children die of hunger.
Deaths due to water related diseases this year (August 2009): 3,143,394.
Most of the world’s major river deltas are sinking, increasing the flood risk faced by hundreds of millions of people.

Estimated yearly costs of climate change damages: over 1 trillion Euros.
Costs of 500 billion dollars per year due to climate change only for developing countries.
300,000 deaths per year due to climate change.
Many islands and costal towns (areas) will be lost already at a global warming of 2 degrees.
Increasing sea level to be expected within 90 years: 1 meter or even more.
Increasing sea level to be expected within 300-400 years: 3-4 meters.
Mediterranean area and other subtropical regions: increase in wildfires.
3.2 billion people will experience water shortages due to climate change.
An additional 600 million people are at risk of famine due to climate change.
Hundreds of millions will be affected by floods; damages in the trillions of US dollars in the future.
Until 2100 up to 20-40% of the species (plants, animals) are endangered.
The Arctic summer sea ice will disappear in the second half of the century.
Water shortages, heat waves, hunger, and floods will be an ever growing threat.
Glaciers are melting twice as fast as in 1999 and before. Billions of people are affected!

Arable land lost due to soil erosion this year up to August (hectares): 3,707,233.
Forest loss this year up to August (hectares): 6,956,398.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions this year until August, in tons: 13,792,068,031.
Desertification this year until August (hectares): 9,155,770.
Species that have gone extinct this year until August: 85,714.
Toxic chemicals released by industries into air, land, water this year (tons): 580,225,642.
The environment and the world of nature and animals will be more and more destroyed.
Exploitations of the seas with a dramatic reduction of the resources of fishing: irreversible!
Every year more than 400 million people on average are directly exposed to a flood.
200 million to be displaced due to rising sea levels, heavier floods, and more intense droughts.
Floods will affect 2 billion by 2050 due to climate change, deforestation and rising sea levels.
Climate change will forever change the socio-economic landscape of our world, of each country.
Increasing global warming can trigger an unstoppable chain reaction with unknown effects.
A cruise ship produces the same amount of fine dust as 50,000 cars driving at 130 km/h.

650m tons of sewage, 60,000 tons of mercury, 36,000 tons of phosphates are dumped into the Mediterranean each year. Millions of tons of plastic debris, industrial chemicals, agricultural waste, petroleum, etc., end up in the oceans every year.

Military expenditure is increasing fast; money spent this year until August: US$2,574,138,419.
The USA has wasted three thousand billion dollars on two wars that have no benefit whatsoever.
The cost of the Iraq War (2001-August 2009) plus the War in Afghanistan: US$898,075,009,835.
Iraq War victims: 1 million dead; 4.5 million displaced; 5 million orphans; 1-2 million widows.
World spending on illegal drugs this year up to August: US$247,093,708,925.
Corruption soars… US$5 trillion, approximately 5% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Around the globe 43 percent of companies are affected by economic crime (corruption).
The revenue of organized crime worldwide is estimated at 2 trillion US$.
Abortions worldwide this year (up to August): 28,683,554.
5000 CEOs and stockbrokers have destroyed 30% of the world’s wealth; and they continue.
Money spent on weight loss programs in the USA (up to August): US$24,919,473,565.
Damage caused by cybercrime estimated at $100 billion annually; we estimate: $300bn.
More than 700,000 people are trafficked every year for sexual exploitation and forced labor.
Suicides this year (up to August): 667,992 (calculated for 1 year it will be more than 1 million!)

The global financial crisis has slashed the value of financial assets by 50 trillion dollars (2008).
The lobby of the nuclear energy industry, the car and arms industry hinder a new future.
Worldwide, the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries receive direct and indirect subsidies over $300bn.
10 million millionaires dispose of US$ 41 trillion (2008), home values not included.
In 2009 the world has 793 billionaires and the net worth of the world’s billionaires stands at US$2.4 trillion.
1.3 billion people earn less than US$1 per day.
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
Estimation: only around 1.2 billion people live in really good (satisfying) economic conditions.
2% of the earth’s population (approx. 13 million) own more than 50% of the world’s wealth.
The poor half of the earth’s population (approx. 3.4 billion) disposes of 1% of the world’s wealth.
The total cost of global warming will be as high as 3.6 percent of GDP, if nothing is done.
Hurricane damage, real estate losses, energy costs, and water costs: almost US$1.9 trillion p.a.
Costs of extreme weather alone could reach 0.5 to 1 per cent of world GDP in 40 years.
Days until the end of oil: 15,449 days = 42 years (if consumed at current rates).

Global NATO: The U.S. and NATO military has expanded into a globally active 50-nation military network; Germany, Australia, Italy and Japan also on the new war-boat for the new “1000 year Reich” of the world’s power obsessed megalomaniac politicians.

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