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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 


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