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This site tells the story of the history of the universe. Click Earlier and Later to follow the story. Note: Many facts have been simplified to make them easier to understand.

This is one of the Threats identified during a [SWOT] analysis of the current world situation.

Laws and police methods vary by country, making it easy for international crime and terrorism to use these differences for their own ends.
There are 6 billion people in the world now, and this will probably double in the next 50 years. Half of these people live on less than US$2 per day. 130 million will never have an opportunity to go to school. 1.3 billion people have no clean water to drink.

The population explosion, sparked by industrialism, is the cause of many of the world's other problems. Around the world cities are growing larger, producing slums and poverty for many and great wealth for a few. Rich countries waste a great deal of money and resources by needless packaging, by failing to recycle paper, glass and other materials, by producing new fashions rather than new goods, and by producing goods of poor quality which have short lives

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