Fwd: project
Kute Kittie
From: Kute Kittie <kutek...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Subject: project
To: Catherine Ma <kutek...@gmail.com>
humans impact 83% of earths land
it take 4 and a half to make 12 diapers
18 billon diapers are used each year
each year cloth diapers use 22,455 gallons for one family
one cow produces 6 and a half gallons of milk per day
it takes 1.2 million cows to serve america their milk each year
dairy cows cover 2,000,000 acres
in a life time one person will consume 5 cows
one person will consume 1.7 tons of pork in a lifetime
we each eat 1,423 tons of chicken per year
we eat 19,826 eggs in a lifetime
19,917 pounds of potatoes
4,376 loaves of bread
150 million hot dogs are eaten in america on independence day
and 5,442 hamburgers
a person will eat 14,518 candy bars in a lifetimes
every year 15 tons of plastic are thrown away
you will open 43,371 aluminum cans in your life
you will take 28,433 showers
and use 1,277,043 gallons of H2O
you will produce 567,575 gallons of sewage
as a nation, we throw away 60,000,000 plastic bottles a day
36,000,000,000 glass bottles a year
each year we make 240 million tons of trash
a single t-shirt will travel 14,625 miles before it reaches you
a man spends 59,972 $ on clothes
1.5 million new homes are being built each year
there are 600 coal burning plants on the USA
if you just turned down the thermostat by 2 degrees you would save 2000 tons of CO2
you will save half a ton of coal if you switch to energy efficient light bulbs
its takes 530 pounds of fossil fuels to make a single desktop
in your life you will spend 12 and a half year in front of the TV
it takes about 500,000 trees to make the sunday paper
americans use 1/4 of the worlds oil
we use 10 and a half million barrels of oil a day
in one lifetime we will use 31,350 gallons of oil
you make 6 tons of carbon emissions each year
if we all drove hybrids, carbon emissions would be cut by 1/3
in your life you will make 1,540 tons of carbon
we would need 4 planets if we all wanted to live like americans
in one lifetime you will use 285 tons of coal
you will swallow 37,320 pills in your life