--Ross McCluney
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Let's face the facts. We must believe what we know. All we have just seen is a reflection of human behavior. We have shaped the Earth in our image. We have very little time to change. How can this century carry the burden of 9 billion human beings if we refuse to be called to account for everything we alone have done?
20% of the world's population consumes 80% of its resources.
The world spends 12 times more on military expenditures than on aid to developing countries. 5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water.
1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry.
Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or biofuels.
40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage.
Every year 13 millions hectares of forest disappear.
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 are threatened with extinction.
Species are dying out at a rhythm 1,000 times faster than the natural rate.
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted, or in dangerous decline.
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