1. United States From: Material World, Peter Menzel

2. China

3. India

4. Mali

5. 1 billion tons = 3.3 tons per person = 140 pounds per week per person US Annual Consumption of Materials

6. Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. (5 feet * 10 feet) Photographs by Chris Jordan

7. Depicts 426,000 cell phones, the number discarded in the US every day. (5 feet * 8 feet)

8. Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. (5 feet * 8 feet)

10. World Income and Wealth Distribution  The bottom 50% of households in the world receive less than 8% of the world’s income.  The top 10% of households in the world receive over half of all the world’s income.  The minimum income needed to be in the highest 10% globally is about $17,000.  The top 10% of households in the world own over 70% of all the world’s wealth. About half of that is owned by the top 1%.

11. To fly a kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the UK means five times its weight in greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere. More than 70 per cent of the world's population has never heard a dial tone. Golfer Tiger Woods is the world's highest-paid sportsman, earning $80 million a year, including $60,000 a day for wearing Nike caps - which Thai workers get $4 a day to make. From “50 Facts that Should Change the World” By Jessica Williams, 2004.

12. In 2008 the United States ranks 46 th in the world in average life expectancy, behind such countries as Jordan, Puerto Rico, and Bosnia.

13. State Lottery Sales per Capita, 2007 www.taxfoundation.org

14. Old methodology

15. New methodology

16. From UCLA Survey of Incoming College Freshmen

17. Under $4k- $12k- $20k- $28k- $40k $60k- $80k- More than $4K $12k $20k $28k $40k $60k $80k $100k $100k

18. Talos Grill $35,000 Home Depot $1,500

19. Atlantis, 380 feet long

20. Dubai, owned by Shiek of Dubai, 525 feet long

21. Bugatti Veyron, $1.4 million, 6 MPG