In 2006 16 million Americans had some form of plastic surgery.

Global warming already kills 150,000 people every year.

Two million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation each year.

These are a few of the chapters in the book, “50 Facts That Should Change The World 2.0” by Jessica Williams.

There are 47 other facts of the same gravity as these, many of which should make you cringe when you read them.

It’s a difficult book to read because of how horrible the truth is sometimes. Williams is a journalist for the BBC and this year, she published the second volume of this book.

These facts are described as being the ones that are “often missed, glossed over or hidden by the government and the media.”

I don’t know if that’s true for all of the facts in the book, but covered in the media or not, these issues and problems need some attention.

It’s overwhelming because these 50 issues probably don’t even scratch the surface of how many could have been included in the book.

Of course, while reading the different facts and the short explanations that follow, some hit me harder than others.

The fact that there are 44 million missing women in China disturbed me because of infanticide and the reality of how cruel people can be to their own children.

Then the fact that supermarkets know more about their customers than the government does was interesting, but it didn’t really move me to act.

But that’s OK because there’s probably someone else who is moved by the fact that our privacy becomes more limited everyday and he or she is working to do something about it.

There’s so much out there that should upset us, so much that should make us angry and drive us to try and make a difference.

This book has 50 reasons to care about change, and it’s easy to find more because there are problems everywhere.

Pick up a newspaper, turn on the T.V., read some blogs or message boards or surf YouTube for a while.

Don’t not care. Don’t be selfish with your time. If you can’t find something wrong in the world, something that you wish was different, then it’s time for you to open your eyes and start paying attention.

And if there is something that makes you angry, do something about it.

Talk about it, write about it, do something to express how much it sucks so other people will start paying attention, too.

If you get that cold, sick feeling in your gut when you learn that there are 27 million slaves in the world, that means something. Learn more about whatever it is that makes you shiver with disgust so you can do help to fix it.