• " Mankind seems to drift towards World War III ," agonized United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar on CNN News , January 15 , 1991 . " After 50 years of diplomacy , at 70 years of age , I am discouraged ." ( John Wesley White , Thinking the Unthinkable , p . 19 ).
• Dick Elkus , an advisory board member of the Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies , predicted , " What has happened so far is a 6.0 earthquake on its way to becoming and 8.3-900 times greater ."
( John Wesley White , Thinking the Unthinkable , p . 12 ).
• The Harriman Institute ' s Richard Ericson said , " We are facing what is perhaps the largest man-made disaster the world has ever seen ." ( John Wesley White , Thinking the Unthinkable , p . 12 ).
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• Our world is hungry and getting hungrier .
• The New York Times reported that 40,000 deaths occur every day in the world due to malnutrition . ( Grant R . Jeffrey , Messiah , p . 141 ).
• In Somalia alone 2,000 people are dying every day . ( USA Today , " Death , Despair Unravel Fabric of Somalia ," Sept . 21,1992 ).
• Up to 26 million people are at risk in Africa alone and up to 460 million worldwide . ( Billy Graham , Storm Warning , p . 195 , 219 ).
• Population explosion is taking place . Somewhere between 2010 and 2020 , the world ' s population will reach 10 billion - we are at 5.5 billion now . ( Grant R . Jeffrey , Messiah , p . 142 ).
• The world grows in population by 100 million every year . ( Billy Graham ,
Storm Warning , p . 18 ).
• USA Today reports that 90 % of all babies born in the next 20 years will be born in countries least able to feed them .
• 13 % of all the people in Latin America do not eat enough to maintain their body weight or support light activity — its 19 % in the Far East ; 33 % in Africa ; and 40 % in India . ( USA Today , USA Snapshots , March 12 , 1993 ).
• " The number of people killed has increased sixfold ." This is similar to the conclusions of the United Nations ' Food & Agricultural Organization in Rome . It noted that entering the 70 ' s there were 10 million people starving to death each year . By the 1990 ' s that number had rocketed to 62 million .