- European Youth Unemployment is as high as 50%.
- $30T of fossil fuels are effectively worthless, dramatically decreasing corporate assets.
- 75% of Americans think that corruption is widespread in America; up from 67% in 2007.
- Only 53% of Americans trust the Judicial branch of the US government.
- 8.7% of the world’s wealth ($7.6T) is hidden in tax havens, effectively removing it from the economy.
- 49% of Americans feel threatened by their government; up from about 30% in 2003.
- In the UK, coal has gone from generating 28.2% of UK’s electricity down to 20.5% in one year.
- US Special Operations forces deployed to 133 countries ~ 70 percent of the nations on the planet.
- The top 1% now make 21.2% of the nation’s income while the bottom 90% make half, 50.2%.
- There were 54,905 US deaths in 2010 from soot and smog, 16,221 from agriculture, 16,929 from power plants.
- Land mines kill 4,000 people per year, but volunteers in Mozambique cleared 171,000 mines.
- The number of Americans without health insurance declined to 33.0 million from 41.8 million.
- The averaged temperature over land and ocean for August 2015 was the warmest on record, 1.58°F.
- From 1989 to 2014, 836,290 people in America were killed by guns. From 1776 to 2015, 656,397 Americans were killed in wars.
- From more than 8M km2 in 1979, Arctic sea ice is down to 5.6M km2.
- From 2006 and 2013, the number of students in high-poverty school districts increased from 15.9 million to 24 million.
- The percentage of the US population that even partly employed is reasonably steady at 66.9%.
- In April 2015, America produced 128M metric tons of CO2, back down to the level of April 1988.
- In the US, the top 20% make about 51% of all income, and the bottom 40% have seen their share drop from 15% to 12%.
- Curtailing climate change could save $1.8T by 2040. Not doing so could cost $44T by 2060.
BUT the much more high priced therapies are not effectively covered whilst in Norway the much more pricey the remedy the significantly less you finish up
paying.
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