The Human Footprint

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The Human Footprint

infancy/childhood
-3,769 diapers
-1,898 crude oil used for each individual in childhood
-715lbs of plastic
-4 1/2 trees
if diapers were reusable, washing: 22,455 gallons of water
serve all of American population:9.2 million cows
milk consumption per individual:
3 pints of milk
14 pints a month
368 pints in a year
13,056 pints of milk per lifetime
26,126 cups of milk consumed in a lifetime
4,043 potatoes eaten in a lifetime per person
-3500lbs of fresh potatoes
-6,920lbs of processed potatoes
1,740,630,427 lbs of food consumed and added up by all humans per day on Earth
consumption of 1.7 tons pork in a lifetime
consumption of 1,426 chickens in a lifetime
consumption of eggs:
5/week
21/month
255/year
1.3 tons of eggs in a lifetime
19,826 eggs per person per lifetime
211 million per day produced by hens
77 billion eggs a year
bread,toast, wheat consumption:
-wyoming size state devoted to wheat fields in USA
-55 bread loafs a year
-4,376 loaves of bread in a lifetime
-87,520 slices of bread in a lifetime
-does not include the consumption of hot dog and hamburger buns
-12,129 hamburger buns consumed in a lifetime
bananas: 11 million air miles to reach us
5,067 bananas consumed in a lifetime,
28 pounds a year,
1.1 tons in a lifetime
(28,301 bananas in my lifetime)
oranges: 12,888 oranges in a lifetime
29,720 / 15 tons of trash (garbage truck load) in a lifetime
178,000,000 cans (aluminum) consumed per day across the US
43,371 cans (aluminum) of soda consumed in a lifetime
3.42 miles of soda cans or 50 football fields w/end zones
americans recycle enough cans to power 1,118,000 homes for a year
bathroom:
28,433 showers in a lifetime (5-minute showers equivalent to
leaving the water running for 98 days nonstop, 7 minute
showers = 136 days of water running nonstop)
-25 gallons of water per shower
156 toothbrushes
389 toothpaste tubes
656 soaps
178 shampoos
39 tubes hairstyle gels
1.2 million gallons of water in a lifetime used excluding showers
same as leaving kitchen tap water on for 62 weeks
600,000 miles of sewer lines - enough to wrap around the world
24 times
men, at any given time:
25 t-shirts
7 pairs of jeans
$52,972 spent on wardrobe in lifetime
women, at any given time: ?
alcohol consumption in lifetime:
13,248 beers (beer drinker)
942 bottles of wine (wine drinker)
House:
-Humans Move about 10 times in lifetime
64 trees to supply wood for average home
14,000 feet of lumber
average new homeowner $9,000 spent on furnishing and decorations
7 washing machines owned in a lifetime
7 air condition units in a lifetime
5 refrigerators owned in a lifetime
8 microwaves owned in a lifetime
10 tv sets owned in a lifetime
15 computers owned in a lifetime
average american:
produces 22 tons of carbon dioxide
-2,000 pounds saved if we lowered our temperatures in house by
2 degrees (more info @ natgeohumanfootprint.com)
average home:
2 tv sets
american watches tv average about 4 hours a day per
12 years 183 days in a lifetime watching TV
USA = 5% of world population
30% of the world's cars in USA
12 cars owned in a lifetime
-replaced roughly every 17 years
americans use a quarter of world's oil, more oil than any other place in the world
627,000 miles or 25 times around the world in a lifetime
31,350 gallons of gasoline
6 tons of carbon emissions a year
360 tons of carbon emissions in a lifetime
10,500,000 barrels of oil a day
200 million cars being driven in USA everyday
If all the world was like the USA, 4 planets would be needed to support everyone
average of 5,054 newspapers read in a lifetime
43 trees to make a lifetime of newspapers for each US citizen
to make all of the US newspapers for one year: 191,000,000 trees.
1000 tons more carbon dioxide a day is released in the air without these trees.
13% threatened species living beside us
hospital visit: 263 times in a lifetime
consumption of pills: 37,320 in a lifetime
average human lifetime: 77 years 9 months
waste in a lifetime: 64 tons


We bring nothing into this world and take nothing out of it but we transform it as we live in it, for better or for worse, this is our human footprint.