...in many parts of the world, while we sit here blogging, tweetng, facebooking and passing the days in other, ever-novel forms of self-indulgence.
For example, in Ghana, children burn electrical components to melt off the plastic and reclaim the copper wiring - releasing toxic chemicals into the environment in the process while, in Brazil, man-made fires clear land for cattle or crops. (Thanks to Greenpeace for this salutary reminder.)
Startling as these anecdotes are, other sources such as Worldmapper can show us the bigger picture about the world we live in, by mapping the state of the world's most pressing issues, while other maps show e.g. the geographical prevalence of different diseases around the world.
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