Humankind Advancing, Vol.9, No.1 January 1998
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do you spend 12 million dollars on military expenditures, a trillion a year?
are 55 people poisoned and 5 killed by pesticides?
are 60 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the United States alone,
over 5,000,000 cases each year with 20,000 cases leading to death, because of
the thinning of my ozonosphere which protected you from the ultra-violet rays of
the sun?
Why EACH DAY do 25,000 people die of water shortage and
contamination?
are 10 tons of nuclear waste generated in 420 nuclear plants?
do 250,000 tons of sulfuric acid fall as acid rain in the northern hemisphere,
killing lakes and devastating remaining forests?
are 60 tons of plastic packages and 372 tons of fishing nets dumped into the
seas by commercial fishermen, killing fishes, sea birds and sea mammals?
does every five hours a species become extinct on my surface?
Why DURING A HUMAN LIFETIME do you dump so much garbage and
waste on me: while the average is 150 times of the weight of a person in a poor
country over a lifetime, why does the average American leave behind a mountain
of waste 4,000 times his own weight?
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Dr. Robert Muller, Chancellor Emeritus of the University for Peace, worked for over 30 years with the United Nations, in the later period as Assistant Secretary General.