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2.5 – 5 billion tons of U.S. soil are eroded every year.
U.S. paved land is now the size of Georgia.
U.S. at night.
Proxima Cetauri is 25 trillion miles away!!
Year 1991 2001
U.S. Population 249,439,545 286,345,000
Municipal Waste Generated (tons) 293,613,000 409,029,000
Percentage Recycled 11.5% 32%
Tons Disposed 259,847,000 278,139,720
Tons Disposed Per Person 1.041 0.979
U.S. Municipal Waste and Recycling
WASTE IMPORTERS, 2000 ( TONS)
1.Pennsylvania 9,764,000
2. Virginia 3,891,000
3. Michigan 3,124,000
4. Illinois 1,548,000
5. Indiana 1,531,000
WASTE EXPORTERS, 2000 ( TONS)
1.New York 5,600,000
2.New Jersey 1,800,000
3. Missouri 1 ,793,000
4. Maryland 1,547,000
5.Massachusetts 1,218,000
INTERNATIONAL WASTE TRADE (2001)
Waste Imported into the U.S. 30,567,000 tons
Waste Exported out of the U.S. -18,255,030 tons
Net Import of Waste Into the U.S. 12,311,970 tons
(2005)
Plastic is dissolving faster than expected.
Good news – amount of pieces of plastic not increasing. Bad news – the plastic is very toxic to ocean life.
Cuyahoga River fires: 1952, 1969
“The Lord can make you tumble,
The Lord can make you turn,
The Lord can make you rock and roll,
But the Lord can’t make you burn.
Burn on, big river, burn on.”
(Randy Newman, “Burn on, Big River”)
Percentages of Texas River miles showing pollution (2002)
About 30 million people in the U.S. have impaired hearing.
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw
At 10 a.m. today: 6,880,879,910
(U.S. Census Bureau)
Density of the human population 1994
Percentages of biomes impacted by human activity.
Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects, The 1998 Revision; and estimates by the Population Reference Bureau.
The wealthiest 1% of US income earners make more than the lowest 50% of the population.
The richest 400 families in the US have more money ($1.27 trillion) than the poorest 150,000 million people (50% of people) ($1.22 trillion).
