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Worldometers – a Measure of Many Interesting Things

By James Hoggan
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This is a wonderful site if only for its ability to make you really think about the pace of change on the earth. There is woefully little information about the origin of the statistics, but the mere willingness to try to track the number of births and deaths – as well as the production of food, garbage, carbon dioxide and, well, many more things, is courageous and worthy. 

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