60 seconds

I just found this article on a news website and it surprised and shocked me a lot. It's about a list, written by the autors of List25, of 20 things that are happening every minute around the world:

So right at this moment, the next 60 seconds...

- There will be five earthquakes.

- There will be 360 lightnings on the Earth.

- 250 children will be born.

- 113 of them will be born in underdeveloped countries.

- 15 of them will have birth problems or disabilities.

- We will use 55.000 barrels of oil.

- The Sun will throw 60 million tones of material in the space.

- 105.360 cubic meters of water will fall into the Iguazú Falls.

- 960 million tons of water are going to be evaporated from the Earth surface.

- A bird will move i'ts wings about 4 thousand times.

- 6 million chemical reactions will be produced in every cell in our body.

- You will move your eyelashes 12 times.

- Bill Gates is going to earn 15 thousand dollars.

- Nike is going to earn 36 thousand dollars.

- Nike workers will earn a tenth of a penny.

- They will cut 2.040 trees in the rainforest.

- 1800 stars will explode.

- 107 people will die.

- People all around the world will eat 4.500 McDonald's burgers.

- But, 18 of the 170 deaths, will die of starvation.

Personally, this list surprised me a lot. I only knew some of the facts like the birth of children, especially in the third world, the number of deaths every minute and that we move our eyelashes 12 times in 60 seconds. 

However, what really shocked me is that Bill Gates and Nike are earning such an amount of money in this short time, comparing it to the workers of Nike. In addition, the fact that while people are eating 4500 burgers, 18 people die because of starvation is more than only a sign for us to act and avoid it. Finally, It's also remarkable that propably we won't have any trees in the future if they continue like this.