More than 3,000 pounds of food are wasted every second of every day in the U.S. alone, which is just under 100 billion pounds per year...that's right, 100 billion!
Hunger and malnutrition claims 25,000 lives every day and one life every 3 seconds.
1.2 billion people on Earth live without access to safe drinking water.
Approximately 6 million children under the age of 5 die of starvation every year.
To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would only cost 13 billion dollars -- this is roughly the same amount the United States and Europe spend on perfume each year.
About 25% of the world's population lives in severe poverty.
Currently, 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world. Since the AIDS epidemic began, 18 million children have lost a parent to this dreadful disease.
The 10 hottest years ever recorded in the United States have occurred since 1990.
In the last 30 years, 400,000 square miles of Arctic sea ice have melted, threatening polar bear habitats and further accelerating global warming worldwide.
In the last decade, 2 million children have died from wars and armed conflict.
110 million landmines lie undetonated in 68 countries around the world.
The assets of the world's 3 richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
We can save 1.1 million barrels of oil if we all ate one meal each week made from locally-grown food.
Since you've entered this site, at least 100 people have died of starvation.
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