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Shahla
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: The State of the Earth - War, Debt and Poverty |
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In 1 AD, we humans were estimated to be around 300,000,000. In 1850, we first passed the 1 billion mark. We were 3.9 billion on January 1 of 1970 and today we number 6.9 billion. Our plunder of mother earth and our mutual murder has increased by a direct proportion to the increase in our numbers over the eons.
War talk is on the wind once again. The feverish frenzy to kill each other is soon going to overtake us. Man will exult in the blood of man in the mad race for the left over resources in the innards of the earth.
It is time for a State of the Earth report.
While the twenty-first century has already taken a gory start, it was the last century that stands out as the most horrific and brutal testimony to our blood-lust. We killed three times more people in wars in this one century alone than in all the previous five centuries. Since the end of the Second World War in 1945 there have been over 250 major wars in which we put to death more than 23 million of our brethren, made homeless tens of millions and injured and bereaved countless millions. 3 out of 4 fatalities of these wars have been our women and children. 50 million of our fellow beings have been forced to flee their homes because of our conflicts since the 1990s alone.
To our children, especially, we have been exceptionally vicious in these conflicts. We killed more of them than soldiers in these wars. In the past decade alone, we snuffed the lives of around 2 million of our children in armed conflicts and injured three times as many. Even more heart-rending is the fact that we are using 300,000 of our children as soldiers in current armed conflicts in more than 30 countries around the world, with some as young as 10 years of age or even younger.
We have been killing ourselves in a variety of ways. The use of land mine, for example, has been just one of our methods. By one estimate, we have planted between 60 and 70 million landmines in the ground in at least 70 countries maiming or killing approximately 26,000 civilians every year, including 8,000 to 10,000 of our children.
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