These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity

[Hawker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/these-31-charts-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity/

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[bb999]

If chart number 3 included debt serfs, people trapped in student loans or other types of loans they can't get out of, then the percentage should be much higher. 

[FCTaiChi]

And yet if we don't act on climate change it's all for naught.

[bb999]

If we don't stop the asteroids it's all for naught as well lol

[FCTaiChi]

Do 98% of worlds scientists think we're about to be destroyed by asteroids?  News to me.

[keatonatron]

"If these trends continue indefinitely, we’ll soon be spending 100 percent of GDP on malaria research"

Ha!  Semantically speaking, quite true.

[kodo]

all of these things sounded good to me. Dropping of wars altogether, and Global democracy rising is bad?

[keatonatron]

all of these things sounded good to me. Dropping of wars altogether, and Global democracy rising is bad?

(Secret hint: It's a joke. Read the top of the article)

[kodo]

all of these things sounded good to me. Dropping of wars altogether, and Global democracy rising is bad?

(Secret hint: It's a joke. Read the top of the article)

Ahh ok