- Air pollution kills ~ 4,500,000 people annually.
- US forest fires cost a record $1.7B in 2015.
- Job growth has been created with 2.3M lower paying jobs.
- M&A activity hit a record of $5T, just like other bubbles.
- December 2015 set a record for heat in the US, 6 degrees above average.
- The US job market added 292,000 jobs in December 2015.
- Since 1991, US cancer deaths have dropped by 23%.
- Of 32M American artists, only 2.1M can consider themselves professionals.
- Off-shore tax havens hold more than $2.1T in Fortune 500 assets.
- US coal production hit a 30 year low at 900,000,000 tons.
- An attack on the Ukrainian power grid left 80,000 people without power.
- Half of America’s homeless are over 50, and dying more rapidly.
- 62 people hold the same wealth as 3,500,000,000.
- Global fishing has declined 1.2M tons per year.
- Global land and sea temperatures set a record at 1.62F above the 20th Century average.
- The Doomsday Clock sits at three minutes to midnight.
- Half of sea level rise (3.8mm/year) is from ocean heating.
Pretending Not To Panic 