WHY IS THIS A HUGE DEAL?

A TRILLION Is One Thousand BILLION (1,000,000,000,000)

A BILLION Is One Thousand MILLION (1,000,000,000)

Just for giggles, lets say someone gave you One Billion ($1,000,000,000) dollars, and the only condition for you to start spending the money was to simply count out up to One Billion first, that would seem like a easy task, wouldn’t it? - But not really, you see, if you were to count out One Billion ($1,000,000,000), nonstop without sleeping, eating, moving, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it would take you over 39 years to just verbally count out One Billion.

Now if you were to just verbally count out One Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) nonstop without sleeping, or eating and moving, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it would take over 55,000 years to just verbally count out One Trillion.

Since TRILLION and BILLION are difficult numbers and volumes to imagine and comprehend, so I thought putting these huge figures into a real world perspective, an understandable volume of something important to all of us, may help us to realize what are we doing and how big a damage we are inflicting upon our one and only HOME, Planet Earth:

Two Billion (2,062,281,600) Plastic Bags Ago; dumped in trash, choking our oceans and land, was yesterday, just 24 hours ago, United States only!

Two Billion (2,880,000,000) Plastic Water Bottles Ago; dumped in trash, choking our oceans and land, was yesterday, just 24 hours ago, United States only!

A Billion (1,314,000,000) Minutes Ago Persian Emperor Kourosh The Great, Wrote The First Charter Of Human Rights 2500 Years Ago.

A Billion (1,000,000,000) Hours Ago - Our Ancestors Were Living In The Stone Age.

Six Billion (6,027,397,260) Dollars Ago - Was Only 24 Hours Ago, At The Rate Washington DC Spends Our Money.

Sincerely,

Bahram Maskanian