"eBay Green Team: Mother Nature Could Always Use An Advocate"
- Feb 2, 2010
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- John Lawson
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Fast Facts
Did you know?
- More than a billion people in 20 developing and transitional nations have recently become wealthy enough to begin consuming like Americans (Makower/Norman Myers)
- The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but uses 30% of the world’s resources and creates 30% of the world’s waste (Story of Stuff)
- In the past 3 decades alone, 1/3 of the planet’s natural resource space has been consumed (Story of Stuff)
- For every 1 garbage can of waste you put out on the curb, 70 garbage cans of waste were produced upstream (Story of Stuff)
- Americans create 4.5 lbs of garbage per day on average – that's twice the level we created 30 years ago (Story of Stuff)
- Only 1% of products purchased in North America are still in use 6 months after their date of sale (Story of Stuff)
- Natural resource consumption by humans has increased to 125% of global carrying capacity, and could rise to 170% by 2040 (WBCSD/WWF)
- The global population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 (WBCSD)
- The global middle class is expected to triple by 2030 (WBCSD)
- 60% of the Earth’s ecosystem services have been degraded in the past 50 years (WBCSD)
- 5 planets would be required were everyone to adopt the consumption patterns and lifestyles of the average North American (WBCSD/WWF)
- Almost 1/3 of the Earth’s planets and animals have been lost since 1970; extinction rates are approximately 100 times higher than the fossil record (WBCSD)
- The sum of all substances required to support one American for a year totals nearly 1 million pounds (Makower)
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