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END OF DAYS: Human Race in Review

END OF DAYS THE HUMAN RACE IN REVIEW THE HUMAN RACE HAS PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE ON OUR PLANET FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. OUR PRESENCE HAS BROUGHT LASTING CHANGE TO THIS WORLD IN THE FORM OF REMARKABLE ADVANCEMENTS, AND DEPLORABLE SETBACKS. HERE LIES SOME OF THE BEST AND WORST OF MANKIND’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS THUS FAR. ENVIRONMENT THERE ARE 113 COUNTRIES WITH NATIONAL PARKS AND 7,00 0 NATIONAL PARKS AROUND THE WORLD IN FEBRUARY 2011, 64,096 TREES WERE PLANTED WITHIN 15 MINUTES IN THE PHILIPPINES, SETTING A WORLD RECORD FOR TREES BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY PLANTED. 9 BILLION TONS OF LITTER IS DUMPED INTO THE OCEAN EVERY YEAR, AND $11.5 BILLION IS SPENT ON CLEANING UP LITTER YEARLY. AMERICANS DUMP 16 TONS OF SEWAGE INTO THEIR WATERS EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY. 9 MILLION TOXIC CHEMICALS WERE RELEASED IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN 2012. AMERICANS THROW AVWAY ABOUT 40 BILLION SOFT DRINK CANS AND BOTTLES EVERY YEAR. PLACED END TO END, THEY WOULD REACH TO THE MOON AND BACK NEARLY 20 TIMES. 40 MILLION ACRES OF TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS ARE DESTROYED EACH YEAR THROUGH LOGGING. ANIMAL SPECIES SCIENTISTS HAVE NAMED AND CATALOGED 1.7 MILLION SPECIES RESEARCHERS REPORT 15,0 00 NEW SPECIES EACH YEAR 801 ANIMAL SPECIES HAVE GONE EXTINCT, AND 3,879 ANIMALS ARE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TRANSPORTATION 60 MILLION PASSENGER CARS AND 129 MILLION BICYCLES WERE PRODUCED IN 2012 165,000 NEW CARS ARE PRODUCED EACH DAY 31 BILLI ON CO2 EMISSION S WERE RELEASED THIS YEAR. 00,00,00 HEALTH 109 MILLION CHILDREN WERE VACCINATED IN 2010, AND GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION RATES WERE AT 85% THE MEASLES VACCINE PREVENTS 1 MILLION DEATH S WORLDWIDE. 4.6 MILLION DEATHS FROM DIABETES IN 2011 8 MILLION DEATHS FROM CANCER EACH YEAR 1.6 MILLION DEATHS FROM HIV/ AIDS EACH YEAR OVER 20 BILLION CIGARETTES ARE SMOKED EACH DAY. 4.8 MILLION DEATHS WERE CAUSED BY SMOKING THIS YEAR. LIFE & DEATH 67.5 YEARS MALE GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH 73.3 YEARS FEMALE GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH 357,450,000 DEATHS FROM EVERY MAJOR DOCUMENTED WAR TO DATE 85,943,000 DEATHS FROM EVERY REPORTED GENOCIDE TO DATE ENERGY APPROXIMATELY 6% OF THE WORLD'S ENERGY AND 13-14% OF THE WORLD'S ELECTRICITY IS POWERED BY NUCLEAR REACTORS (50% OF THIS IS GENERATED FROM THE US, FRANCE AND JAPAN). 75 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL SAVED ANNUALLY BY ALL SOLAR ENERGY USERS LESS THAN 60,500 DAYS UNTIL THE END OF GAS LESS THAN 15,000 DAYS UNTIL THE END OF OIL DURING THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER OF 1986 (THE WORST NUCLEAR DISASTER TO DATE BY AMOUNT OF RADIATION RELEASED), 400 TIMES MORE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL WAS RELEASED THAN HAD BEEN BY THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND 10 TIMES AS MUCH AS THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI MELTDOWN OF 2011. DURING THE BP OIL SPILL OF 2010, 4.9 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL SPILLED INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN U.S. HISTORY. IT KILLED 11 MEN AND INJURED 17, KILLED 6,814 ANIMALS AS OF NOVEMBER 2010, AND CONTAMINATED 491 MILES OF COASTLINE AS OF JULY 2011. STRUCTURES & URBANIZATION THE TALLEST MANMADE STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD IS THE BURJ KHALIFA IN DUBAI. IT IS 2,717 FEET IN HEIGHT. THE CLIFFHANGER IN GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO IS THE WORLD'S HIGHEST- ELEVATED ROLLER COASTER. IT Is 7,160 FEET TALL. FORMULA ROSSA IN ABU DHABI IS THE WORLD'S FASTEST ROLLER COASTER. IT REACHES 15 0 MPH IN 4.9 SECONDS. 1 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN URBAN SLUMS WORLDWIDE, LACKING SAFE DRINKING WATER AND PLUMBING. 20% OF SLUM HOUSEHOLDS ARE MISSING AT LEAST THREE OF THE FOLLOWING NEEDS: DURABLE WALLS, SECURE LEASE OR TITLE, ADEQUATE LIVING SPACE, AND ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER AND TOILETS. TECHNOLOGY 1.038 BILLION SMARTPHONES IN USE WORLDWIDE 118.9 MILLION TABLETS SOLD WORLDWIDE IN 2012 26 MILLION SONGS IN THE ITUNES STORE 20 BILLION SONGS PURCHASED OVER THE LAST NINE YEARS 350 MILLION TOTAL IPODS SOLD 338 MILLION COMPUTERS SOLD THIS YEAR SPORTS IT TOOK THOMAS BURKE 12 SECONDS TO RUN THE 100-METER DASH AT THE 1896 OLYMPICS IN ATHENS, GREECE. IT TOOK USAIN BOLT, THE FASTEST MAN IN THE WORLD, TO RUN THE SAME RACE IN 9.63 SECONDS TIME AT THE 2012 OLYMPICS IN LONDON. IN THE 1896 OLYMPICS, IT TOOK ALFRED HAJOS 1:22:2 TO SWIM THE MEN'S 100-METER FREESTYLE. IT TOOK ALAIN BERNARD 47:21 TO SWIM THE SAME RACE (AND SET THE RECORD FOR THE FASTEST TIME) AT THE 2008 OLYMPICS IN BEIJING. 89 MLB PLAYERS ALLEGEDLY USED STEROIDS OR PEDS ACCORDING TO THE 409-PAGE "MITCHELL REPORT." (PLAYERS INCLUDED BARRY BONDS AND ROGER CLEMENS.) LANCE ARMSTRONG WAS STRIPPED OF 7 TOUR DE FRANCE TITLES IN 2012 DUE TO THE BANNED DRUGS AND BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS WHICH HE ALLEGEDLY USED TO GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE RACES. 15 THOROUGHBRED RACE HORSES DIE ON AMERICAN RACETRACKS EVERY WEEK. SOURCES THE LANCET | WORLDOMETERS FORBES WIKIPEDIA THE NEW YORK TIMES PBS TECHCRUNCH | STATISTIC BRAIN | CNET GARTNER MCDONALDS.COM | SUBWAY.COM | STARBUCKS.COM | THE WASHINGTON POST CBS NEWS | CNN | GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS |UNITED NATIONS DESIGN BY: MICHAEL BIONDO / @MSH_BIONDO RESEARCH & CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Mainstreethost OLIVIA ROAT / @MSH_OLIVIA PATRICK DEPUY / @PSM_PATRICK BRANDON KOCH / @MSH_BKOCH DIGITAL MARKETING AGENCY SINCE 1999 COS

END OF DAYS: Human Race in Review

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Humans have been living on planet earth for centuries. Here is an infographic about the Human Race.

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