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EL5131 Stats and Quotes Notes

Climate Change

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EastCoastBeachPlan, A Singaporean Initiative by Ms Samantha Thian to keep East Coach Beach clean.

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4th Industrial Revolution

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  • Oxford Economics, a UK-based research firm: Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost globally to robots by 2030.

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Big Tech

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Pandemic

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  • More than 100000 of DBS Bank's customers decreased income by more than 50%
  • Average household income in the bottom 10% of households shrunk by 6.1 per cent (2019 to 2020)
  • Top 5 billionaires increased wealth by $637 billion
  • Across 37 Countries, 3 in 4 households suffered declining income since the start of the pandemic, with 82% of poorer households affected. (Source: Save the Children)
  • May 2020 Reports related to family violence rose by 22 per cent since circuit breaker started. On average, the number of family violence reports per month rose by about 10 per cent in 2020.
  • US Lost 40 million jobs at the peak of the pandemic
    • \(\approx\)42% of lost jobs are lost forever

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