World Clock

I don't start many topics but my wife found this and I thought it was interesting,pretty cool and a little scary.

I like the illegal immigration counter.

It is very scary indeed.

But personally I think that this clock should be in front of every person on this planet right now. Sadly, we need more education and more warnings.

I was shocked not by births or death, but by hectares of forest forever gone. That's horrible.
While I wrote this post, the number of woods surface in hectares  gone is: 91.

I'm not sure who this quote comes from "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die."  The earth's natural resources are stretched to the limit, we are living longer and third world countries compound their lack of resources by continually churning out more children.  It boggles my mind when you see people living in squalor, and they go about pumping out kids to what, revel in the enjoyment?  Human existence and our drive to "Go forth and multiply" sometimes clash in my mind.

^ You're also forgetting the increase of kids amongst the poor in developed nations. The fact is that in developed countries, children are tax write-offs. It's not so much about having a kid ot take care of you so much as a stipend check. This is certainly not always the case, or even usually the case, but it does happen. Plus, poor people are less likely to have had sex education or even the money for protection or birth-control pills. Others still view such as objects as religiously objectionable. There needs to be some world-wide movement to raise awareness for such things (hopefully NOT in the form of a massive concert) before we all end up like China with rampant abortions limitations for teh number of children one can have.

I understand the need for children to work in agricultural situations.  And I understand the whole thing is not black and white and there are no easy answers.  And I don't want to come off as, "these people need to stop being a burden on the resource hogging US of A."  A lot of my frustration comes from the leaders of these countries.  Why is so hard to get someone in charge that is decent and will do better by their people instead of living lavishly on the sweat of their people?  That is the biggest problem.

Why doesn't Kim Jung Il drop dead and someone get in charge who can put the work ethic of the N. Korean people to good use so they can live like people instead of animals.  But you know the next a**hole in line will be the same.  Would you have a kid if you were a N. Korean?  What kind of life is that?  Would you have a kid in the middle of the many Civil Wars being waged in Africa?  If your answer is yes, I respect that, but I think that is the "food for thought" type of thing I am going for.

The number of abortions is terrible, so is the illegal immigration, that makes me sad jaja

memowakeman wrote: The number of abortions is terrible, so is the illegal immigration, that makes me sad jaja

Edited by Sean Trane - July 31 2007 at 08:43

Hey - at least we're making more bicycles than cars, eh?

toolis wrote: a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics... Joseph Stalin

There are lies, damned lies, statistics & the internet...


...still an eye opener, though

thellama73 wrote: Sean Trane wrote: memowakeman wrote: The number of abortions is terrible, so is the illegal immigration, that makes me sad jaja   I' d think this is terribly over-estimated, too! I suspect the line below it makes it a strong anti-choice supporter (I'm not using the pro-life they call themselves, since we know those a-holes don't like life, since they don't care about the mother's well-being)   I suppose defending myself is a sure fire way to get this thread closed, but I would appreciate it if you didn't call me an a-hole simply because I think killing babies is immoral.