In the booklet that comes with the CD, the band says that it took them 1165 days to complete the album. They then list a bunch of things that happened in those 1165 days. The items listed are staggering, particularly given the juxtaposition of North America versus the world.
I can't vouch for the veracity of the items listed, but here is a partial list (mostly omitting the band specific stuff):
- 30 active wars were started across the globe
- Iraq was invaded for a second time
- 9.8 million people died from AIDS
- 19.2 million people had cosmetic surgery in North America
- 2000 American soldiers died in Iraq
- 300,000 civilians died in Darfur
- 2 million were displaced in Darfur
- 30 billion cases of soft drinks were sold
- 6708 hours of t.v. was watched by the average child
- 4,042,030 people died of cancer in North America
- 40,000 hybrid vehicles sold
- 118,000,000 gas vehicles sold
- 3 trillion dollars spent on global arms trade
- 138 million people ate at McDonald's
- 38 billion dollars was spent on pornography
- 815 billion dollars was profted by pharmaceutical companies
- 54 million people died from extreme poverty
- Apple iTunes sold its 500,000,000th song.
- 0 weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq
- 42 insects swallowed by the average person while sleeping
- 6 billion people walked on our planet
- 3 billion people lived on 2 dollars a day
- 9 billion dollars was all that was needed for all the Third World to have clean water
- 27 billion dollars was spent on music in the U.S.
- 30,000 animal and plant species became extinct
- 1 billion metric tons of hazardous waste was generated
- 29 billion dollars was spent on video games
- 400,000 dollars donated by Paris Hilton to charity from sales of her porn DVD
- 4.8 million children taking Ritalin
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