Xarex 1 Report post Posted April 3, 2011 I was watching "The Human Footprint" on Discovery, I tried to record as much information as possible. This is what we consume, as human beings, in our entire lifetime, as individuals. Hence: The human footprint. 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
