Saw a really interesting graphic on io9 yesterday.
It's quite sobering to realise that over three quarters of the world's population now has access to a mobile phone, and nearly a tenth has broadband internet access. These numbers are pretty good metrics of ease of social connectedness, and can only go up as time goes on, with phones and computers getting cheaper and more disseminated.
The environment section is also quite telling. Global warming skeptics/deniers have never exactly been well-endowed in terms of evidence, but the data is right there in easily digested visual form. Average global temperature has risen nearly a degree in a decade. Not good. The figures for endangered species and impacts of natural disasters aren't exactly endearing either.
Even when the data is right there, people still have difficulty placing facts above their pet ideology. If there's something we need to teach in school, it's deference to the truth. No matter how much you would like us not to be held accountable for our destruction of Earth's environment, it just isn't so.
If only we had politicians who could grasp the concept of long-term only gains, then we would get along much better.
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