Of course take everything with a grain of salt. I dont think all of these sound accurate but you never know. Some seem out dated.
Consumption by the United States: Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.
In the United States:
Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.
On average, one American consumes as much energy as
2 Japanese
6 Mexicans
13 Chinese
31 Indians
128 Bangladeshis
307 Tanzanians
370 Ethiopians
The population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people - the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California - by the year 2050.
Forty percent of births are unintended.
Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed - enough to feed 80 million people.
Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily.
The average American generates 52 tons of garbage by age 75.
The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.
Fifty percent of the wetlands, 90% of the northwestern old-growth forests, and 99% of the tall-grass prairie have been destroyed in the last 200 years.
Eighty percent of the corn grown and 95% of the oats are fed to livestock.
Fifty-six percent of available farmland is used for beef production.
Every day an estimated nine square miles of rural land are lost to development.
There are more shopping malls than high schools.
Americans eat 200 billion more calories per day than necessary -- enough to feed 80 million people.
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
While millions of people around the world starve to death, Americans spend $30 billion a year on diet programs. One-third of the U.S. population is significantly overweight.
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
The U.S. produces 22% of world's total industrial carbon dioxide emissions.
World Overpopulation Awareness
World Overpopulation Awareness (population)
Americans own roughly one-third of the world's automobiles, drive about as many miles as the rest of the world combined, and are far and away the largest per capita producers of carbon dioxide.
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
The U.S. spent half a trillion dollars in 1998: 50% went toward traditional defense; 6% was spent on education; health, the environment, and justice each received 5%, transportation less than 3%; economic development almost 2%; and agriculture and energy less than 1% each
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
56% of U.S. farmland is used to produce beef; 80% of corn and 95% go to feeding livestock in the U.S., while one-third of total world grain output is fed to livestock.
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
Producing 1 pound of wheat requires 25 gallons of water with modern Western farming techniques. Producing 1 pound of beef requires 5,214 gallons of water.
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
Although the fastest population growth is happening in Africa an American's impact on the environment will be over 250 times greater than a Sub-Saharan African. With only one-twentieth of the world's population, Americans consume 20% of its resources.
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
By most calculations we have used more natural resources since 1955 than in all of human history to that time.
B. McKibben. A Special Moment in History, Atlantic Monthly, May98
Humans use 50% of all of the solar energy captured by photosynthesis.
United Nations. 1998 Revision of the World Population Estimates and Projections.
Today's world food supply supplies 2,700 calories per person per day. Although that could feed the world, our distribution of that food neglects 20% of the population.
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
Commercial energy consumption: 1 person in the industrialized world = 10 people in the developing world.
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
The U.S. annually paves over an area the size of Delaware
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
It is estimated that an average of only 0.1% of the pesticides used on crops reaches pests; 99.9% of the pesticides poison the ecosystem
P. Ehrlich. Population Bomb, PBS website [website now retired but book by same name should contain this information]
Employment opportunities in Africa are dismal, where 40% of people live in absolute poverty
Brown, Lester R., Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil, Beyond Malthus, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1999.
It is estimated that "the richest 225 people in the world today control more wealth than the poorest 2.5 billion people. And that the three richest people in the world control more wealth than the poorest 48 nations
A.H. Bill. Facing the Future: People and the Planet. 1998
Sustainability & Global Issues Resources | Facing the Future
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