I was watching TV and another one of those stupid ‘save the children’ ads came on, so I was sitting there, trying not to fall asleep.
And then it said
“Between 10,000 and 15,000 children die every day due to water related disease.”
…That’s the hell of a lot of children. Not that I care, of course, since I’m impartial to network T.V. trying to make a profit off of dying things.
But honestly, if you put that dead center, at 15k per day, then roughly 5,475,000 children die every year from this in the developing world.
That’s more people than most cities. Like, 99.999% of all cities.
Which leads me to believe, that this is bull****.
How in bloody hell can people have 5,475,000 babies every year to replace the one’s they’re already letting die THAT year? it’s impossible. To generate that many babies in a year, we’ll assume that the first wave of babies come from mothers already in labour, and that’ll account for half. 2,737,500 babies right off the bat. That makes 5,475,000 mothers and fathers, who’re already getting ready for more babies. when the second half come, ninme months later, that leaves the new babies only 3 months to die. They have a schedule to keep up, damnit!
Anyways, this is bull-****. There’s no way in hell this is for real. The children race should die off soon enough, how long can this last?