The Human Footprint … Alarm !
Lately I have been organizing my computer, and the past couple of days have been dedicated to Bookmarks. While I was doing so, I came across a bookmark that I had placed for a page on neatorama. Neatorama had a post about the Human foot print, It listed out sort of all the various consumables that we would go through in our life. Of course it is completely from the American perspective, like most of the Internet. However, it gives an idea of the consumables that we would go through our life. Check out the infographic below.
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Quite Interesting statistics there, Now I was looking to find the episode of National Geographic that had a full feature of this. It can be viewed online in various countries; but unfortunately not here in the UAE. So I had to look for some other source of the information and stumbled some more interesting inforgraphics as well as statistics.
First 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 and13,345 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 populationis 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!
- 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, take 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 3 times.
- 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 computers.
- 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 need.
- 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% can’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, and32 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.
Couple all the above statistics, with the next infographic, i.e
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The real water taken to produce some of the consumables mentioned above. What do you have? A disaster waiting to happen! Hope something like this will help enable our governments to sort out their differences amd come together on a consensus on the climate change, and the reduction of the Human footprint on the planet.
Let’s all do something, anything …. To save the planet.
Melvin's Inquisitive Mind 