As this post goes live, my friend at work has her 1 billionth second on this planet. HAPPY 1,000,000,000 seconds.
As humans were generally not that good at understanding numbers. A Million or a Billion, not that much different right? Well…
- A thousand seconds, is 16 minutes away. Make sense, feels about right.
- A million seconds, which is 1000 x 1000, is 11.5 days away. Less than a fortnight.
- A billion seconds, which is 1000 x 1000 x 1000, is just on 32 years away. I think I just gave away my friends age.
There is a massive difference between 1 million and a billion.
Count the population of NZ at 1 per second … 52 days. Count the population of the world at 1 per second … 228 years!
I love the way that counting seconds gives us a better perspective on large numbers.
Numbers like…
- Only about half the world’s population have water on tap, which means at their compound. That means 3.7 BILLION people don’t. Imagine counting that high (114 years.)
- Worse yet, 663 million people have no access, zero, to clean water.
- And as for sanitation. 2.4 Billion people have no access to toilets.
It’s big numbers like these, that drove Jim & I to set up the Good Trust. Not because we alone can get water to 663,000,000 people, but because we know we can make a difference to a few.
It turns out its easier than you’d expect, for you, 1 person, to make a difference for many many people.
The key.
Don’t let the big numbers scare you.
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Over the last few years Good Trust has provided clean water to over 6,000 people, and we are super excited to be visiting some of our projects in Cambodia in April. Thanks to our supporters! We have the ideas, you’ve made things happen. We look forward to sharing stories.
If you would like to support the Good Trust, we’d love it if you made a donation. It would be a great use of a few seconds.
Finally, back to my friend, who is now many seconds past 1,000,000,000. Congratulations! I know that your next Billion seconds will be your best yet!