Some fascinating statistics about world, environment and hunger

@LisaCespedes recently shared a site that provides world statistics in real-time.

Some of the worrying statistics, as of today, were:

• Net population growth for today ~ 200 000
• Species that have gone extinct this year ~ 90,000

Working for UNFAO, the most alarming stats are:

• Undernourished people in the world right now ~ 1,017,200,793
• Overweight people in the world right now ~ 1,139,944,314
• Obese people in the world ~ 339,379,680

and finally..

• People who died of hunger today ~ 25,000

And as an aside, the total # of e-mail messages sent today (~200,000,000,000) is not at all impressive!!!