where is our world going???.............

6,571,497,332 people live on earth
1,200,000,000 people live on $0.23 a day
2,000,000,000 people have no electricity
80% of people live in substandard housing
1,000,000,000 people are without safe drinking water
Every 16 seconds someone dies of hunger
57,000,000 people died in 2006
10,500,000 of these were children under 5 years old
14,000,000 children were orphaned because of HIV + AIDS
2,000,000 children have died as a direct result of armed conflict in the last ten years

Meanwhile…

$8,000,000,000.00 spent on cosmetics in the U.S. $11,000,000,000.00 spent on ice cream in Europe $17,000,000,000.00 spent on pet food in the U.S. and Europe $105,000,000,000.00 spent on alcohol in Europe