World Clock

FYI
looking for a resource on global concern and justice related issues , go to Global Issues and choose a topic to look at. There are many!

Here is another sobering website: The World Clock

The World Clock documents a number of rapidly growing figures, including population growth, consumption of fossil fuels, military expenditures, and number of species to have gone extinct, all since the beginning of 2008.

And this to add into the mix:
a quote from B.B. Taylor....
Once, when I attended a workshop on teaching religion, a presenter talked about how he took his students on wilderness trips to give them a taste of life nearer the edge. Whether they went hiking or white water rafting, the point was to step outside their high-carb comfort zones long enough to encounter the untamed holiness of the wild.
‘Excuse me,’ a member of the audience said, ‘but are there predators in those places who are above you on the food chain?’
‘Well, of course not,’ the presenter said. ‘I wouldn’t put students in danger like that.’
‘I wouldn’t either,’ the man in the audience said, ‘but don’t lull them into thinking they have experienced true wilderness. It’s only wilderness if there’s something out there that can eat you.’

— Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith