Environmental Science Ecology and the Biosphere

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour *...  World Population Has Grown by 8,500:  15,000 births  6,500 deaths  200 from air pollution  700 children from hunger  330 from AIDS *2006

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour... Food Consumed:  FISH & SHELLFISH – 35 million lbs (13 million pounds farmed) (2004)  MEAT – 63 million pounds (2006)  ICE CREAM – 650,000 quart

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour... Food Consumed:  GRAIN million pounds (2005)  COFFEE BEANS – 340,000 lbs (2002)  Fertilizer Used: 35 million lbs

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour...  Forests Cut – 20,000 acres/hour! (1,000,000 x the size of this room) (2000)  Paper/Wood Consumed million lbs/hour !

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour...  Steel Production: 283 million lbs (2006)  5600 Cars Produced/hour

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour...  Forests Cut: 20,000 acres (2000) (1,000,000x size of this room!)  Paper/Wood Consumed: 250 million pounds  21 million pieces of “junk mail” thrown away/hour  EXTINCTIONS: 1-3 species/hour

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour...  5,000 cars rolled off the assembly line (2004)  $50 million spent on advertising (2002)  Carbon Dioxide: 1.7 billion lbs added to atmosphere (US contributed 25%) (2005)

 50 million pounds municipal trash (that’s 4.5 lbs person day) (2001)  3 billion lbs mining, industrial, & agricultural waste  2 million pounds packing peanuts In the USA, in the Past Hour... WE Threw Away:

WORLDWIDE, in the Past Hour... Energy Use:  2 million barrels oil equivalent (2005) (When $81/barrel = $162 billion!)  (World Use = about 4x US Use) Water Use:  16 billion gallons (2000) (almost 1 million gal bottled H 2 O)

 11 million pounds paper  2.5 million plastic bottles  2,300 computers  170,000 pounds of edible food In the USA, in the Past Hour... WE Threw Away:

Do you want to do something about it or shall this be just another class? How do you want to impact the environment during the next hour?