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Taken from the tv programe "the human footprint"
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Remember these are averages, per person over a lifetime of
78.5 years. Averages only tell us about typical behaviour. The figures will vary greatly between individuals.
The statistics. Food and drink
Milk- 15,951 pints
To produce this amount of milk for the population,
2.1 million cows are needed,
eating 100 kilograms of grass a day.
Meat- 89% will eat meat.
4 head of cattle,
21 sheep,
15 pigs,
1200 chickens and
13,345 eggs.
Potatoes- 2327kg
Bread- 4283 loaves
Fruit and Vegetables-
5272 apples,
10,866 carrots
95% of our food is imported.
Food packaging -
8.5 tons
Chocolate -
8.2kg a year, 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime.
Bake Beans -
845 tins.
Alcohol- 10351 pints, 1,694 bottles of wine, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk now!
Tea -
74,842 cups in a lifetime.
Human Waste, Waste and Sewage.
Wind - 1 - 1.5 litres of gas a day,
12-25 times a day,
35,815 litres! (enough to make an atomic bomb!)
Toilet rolls- 4239 to cope with 2,865kg of faeces.
Sewage- 150 litres per day per person, but also disposed of across the country in a day are
2.5 million tampons, 1.4 million sanitary towels, 700,000 panty liners and
270,000 condoms.
Nappies- 3,800
2.5 billion disposed of each year, largest contributor to landfill,
takes 500 years to decompose, at age five we will have produced more carbon dioxide than that of a person in Tanzania over their lifetime.
40 tons of waste sent to landfill sites over a lifetime.
Relationships with others.
Language- average vocabulary is
25,000 words, only
4% of the English Oxford Dictionary.
We speak on average
4,300 words a day, more for women, less for men.
123,205,740 words in a lifetime.
People will know -
1,700 people over a lifetime.
We will have
300 people in our social group at anytime.
Partners- 10 different partners, 4,239 times having s*x, about
2 times a week!
Love - we will fall in love [/b]3 times.[/b]
Marriage -
11.5 years, 70% will attempt a marriage once.
Personal Hygiene
7163 baths in a lifetime,
1 million litres of water.
656 bars of soap,
198 bottles of shampoo,
272 deodorants,
276 tubes of toothpastes,
78 toothbrushes,
411 skin care product ,
37 perfumes,
35 tubes of styling gel,
25 bottles of nail polish,
21 sticks of lipstick,
11,00 tampons/sanitary towels,
5.6 bottles of fake tan!
Shower gel components take
800 years to disappear from the water system.
We wash our hair
11.500 times in a lifetime.
Wealth and Spending.
£1,537,380 spent in a lifetime.
Housing, food and clothing
£552,772, tax £286,311, leisure and entertainment
£236,312.
Consumer goods
3.5 washing machines,
3.4 fridges,
3.2 microwaves,
4.8 televisions,
9.8 DVD players,
15 computer's.
240kg of fossil fuels,
22kg of chemicals,
1.5 tons of water needed to produce a home computer, externality (doesn't reflect their true cost, in relation to the environment.)
£920 spent per person on the average Christmas.
628 Christmas gifts received over a lifetime.
8 cars per person.
Clothing
Clothing market is worth
£23 billion in the U.K.,
£385 per year spent on clothes,
£3,222 pounds spent on clothes over a lifetime.
500 litres of water and
40g of pesticides needed to produce a t-shirt.
570kg of chemicals added to the water system through washing clothes.
Travel
197 miles walked per year, 15,464 miles in a lifetime.
We will drive
452,662 miles in a lifetime.
135,950 litres of petrol will be needed.
59 foreign holidays.
737 tons of carbon released into the atmosphere.
Information and Culture.
Television,
148 minutes a day, 900 hours a year, 2944 days in a lifetime.
533 books read in a lifetime.
3% canān't read in the U.K.,
40% choose not to read, more households own two cars than two novels!
Newspapers read
2455. 1.5 tons of paper
24 trees will be used to make the books and newspapers you need.
Religion
6 acts of worship a year,
390 over a lifetime.
Democracy
You will vote in
fifty elections.
Health
Cigarettes -
77,000 over a lifetime.
1/3 of all cancers are from smoking.
Vomit-
2 times a year,
five buckets over a lifetime.
314 visits to the doctor.
30,000 pills in a lifetime.
Tears shed
61.5 litres.
104,390 dreams in a lifetime.
Death
1700 people we know.
305 die of heart disease,
179 stokes,
111 flu and pneumonia,
99 from lung cancer,
92 from lower respiratory diseases,
63 from dementia,
49 cancers of the colon, and
32 from breast cancer,
10 from suicide,
9 in road accidents, and
1 in a fire.
1 in 3 will know a person who has been murdered.
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Not that you should worry about this
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Rules of me:
#1. i am always right
#2, just in case i am wrong see rule #1
U laugh because im different i pity you all because ur all the same!
[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2007-08-25 16:32 ]
[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2007-08-25 16:35 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-25 17:23:52
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75% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Posted: 2007-08-25 18:00:33
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On 2007-08-25 18:00:33, blond boy wrote:
75% of statistics are made up on the spot
Like the one you just said?
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Posted: 2007-08-25 19:10:19
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Exactly like that one se_p800
Paul went to a LOTTA trouble getting that together...i know
the least u can do is appreciate it
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Posted: 2007-08-25 20:11:57
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yeah, i broke my "b" key in the process
wow, how many cups of tea
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Posted: 2007-08-25 20:32:44
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It should be written how many sony ericsson phones has an average person in a lifetime
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Posted: 2007-08-25 20:57:28
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63 se phones over your lifetime
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Posted: 2007-08-25 21:03:16
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you made a mistake!
Love - we will fall in love [/b]3 times.[/b]
but it is normal to happen
my god five buckets of vomit in a lifetime
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Posted: 2007-08-25 21:30:01
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you'r comments are appriciated guys! (i spent allot of time with the html and bb code)
@blond boy, I AM NOT going through all the bb and htm code to fix it!
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Rules of me:
#1. i am always right
#2, just in case i am wrong see rule #1
U laugh because im different i pity you all because ur all the same!
[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2007-08-26 20:15 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-26 21:14:56
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