Polluted water kills 22,000 people every day.

Ref: A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali.

It’s estimated that in the US 16 million barrels of oil are used every year to produce bottled water containers.

Ref: Harper’s (US).

Oil majors control less than 10 percent of world resources of gas and oil, against 70 percent in the 1970s.

Ref: AFP.

China has 21% of the world’s population but only 1.8% of the world’s oil supply.

Ref: Eurasia Group (US).

At current rates of over-fishing and pollution there will be no fish left to eat in our oceans by the year 2056.

Ref: Time (US).

A typical avatar in Second Life consumes the same amount of electricity each year as an average Brazilian in real life.

Ref: Rough Type (US).

90% of people living in California now live in an area where air pollution exceeds the legal state limit.

Ref: Harper’s (US).

The percentage of the earth’s surface affected by drought has more than doubled over the last thirty years.

Ref: Time (US).

630 million people live within 10km (6 miles) of the sea worldwide.

Ref: Economist (UK).

China consumes 40% of the world’s steel production, 30% of the world’s coal and 25% of the world’s aluminum and copper. The country also accounts for 40% of the increase in demand for oil since 2001.

Ref: The Guardian (UK).

In China there are fifty new chemical plants currently under construction. In the US there is one.

Ref: Businessweek (US).

5% of waste generated worldwide is electrical goods.

Ref: Sunday Times (UK).

China uses 55% of the world’s cement.

Ref: Williams Inference (US).