*Ciardubh

We are all artist here, meet our world in scary visual: [link]



How often do we think and do this? Yeah I should have but I didn't, I really should but I don't.
Don't have time/money/wherewithall. Generally we don't care enough.
My sister brought this home recently.... And I'm sure it's meant to make us outraged for five minutes and then forget about it. It just made me sad... and I didn't forget it.

50 Facts That Should Change The World

1. The average Japanese woman can expect to live to be 84. The average Botswanan will reach just 39

2. A third of the world's obese people live in the developing world

3. The US and Britain have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world.

4. China was 44 million missing women

5. Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of it's armed forces

6. 81% of the world's executions in 2002 took place in just three countries; China, Iran and the USA

7. British supermarkets know more about their customers than the British government does.

8. Ever cow in the EU is subsidised by $2.50 a day. That's more than what 75% of Africans have to live on

9. In more than 70 countries, same sex relationships are illegal. In 9 the penalty is death.

10. One in five of the world's people live on less than a dollar a day.

11. More than 12000 woman are killed in Russia each year as a result of domestic violence.

12. In 2003, 15 million Americans had some form of plastic surgery

13. Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour.

14. There are 44 million child labourers in India.

15. People in industrialised countries eat between six and seven kilograms of food additives every year

16. The golfer Tiger Woods is the world's highest-paid sportsman. He earns $78 million a year - or $148 every second

17. Seven million American woman and 1 million American men suffer from an eating disorder.

18. Nearly half of British fifteen years olds have tried illegal drugs, and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers

19. there are 67,000 people employed in the lobbying industry in Washington D.C. - 125 for each member of congress.

20. Cars kill two people ever minute

21. Since 1977, there have been more that 90,000 acts of violence and disruption at abortion clinics in North America

22. More people can identify the golden arches of McDonalds than the Christian Cross

23. In Kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household budget

24. The world's trade in illegal drugs is estimated to be worth around $400 billion - about the same as the world's legal pharmaceutical industry.

25. A third of Americans believe aliens have landed on Earth

26. More than 150 countries use torture

27. Everyday one in five of the world's population go hungry - some 800 million people

28. Black men born in the US today have a one in three chance of going to jail

29. A third f the world's population is at war

30. The world's oil reserves could be exhausted 2040. (and you can be damn sure the last few litres won't have been used in the humanitaritan effort)

31. 82% of the world's smokers live in developing countries

32. More than 70% of the world's population have never heard a dial tone

33. A quarter of the worlds armed conflicts of recent years have involved a struggle for natural resources

34. Some 30 million people in Africa are HIV positive

35. Ten languages die out every year

36. More people die each year from suicide every year than in all the world's armed conflicts

37. Every week, an average of 88 children are expelled from American school for bringing a gun to class

38. There are at least 300,000 prisoners of conscience in the world

39. Two million girls and woman are subjected to female genital mutilation each year.

40. There are 300,000 child soldiers fighting in conflicts around the world.

41. Nearly 26 million people voted in the 2001 British General Election. More than 32 million votes were cast in the first season of pop idol.

42. America spends $10 billion on pornography every year - the same amount it spends on foreign aid

43. In 2003, the US spend $396 billion on its military. This is 33 times the combined military spending of the seven rouge states.

44. There are 27 million slaves in the world today

45. Americans discard 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. That's enough bottles to reach all the way to the moon every three weeks

46. The average urban Briton is caught on camera up to 300 times a day

47. Some 120,000 woman and girls are trafficked into Western Europe every year.

48. A kiwi fruit flown from New Zealand to Britain emits five times it's own weight in green house gasses.

49. The US owes the the United Nations more than $1 billion in unpaid dues.

50. Children living in poverty are three times more likely to suffer a mental illness than children from wealthy families

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So what are you doing??
I'm not going to tell you to run out and burn flags, give money or join an organisation. People who are that way inclined tend to do that all by themselves. Here's what I'm asking; talk about it. Find out what facts here are wrong, or misrepresented in your opinion (every source will give you different stats). Why is this wrong? What would be better? Talk to friends and families, challenge your teachers. Next time somebody is bitching about a bad hair day over a lunch millions of people won't get, give them something to think about. Especially talk to the people who disagree with you...


EDIT: With this buzzing around my mind, I started this club; :artistsagainstapathy:
Come, join, speak and think

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