Can you eat 5,054 slices of pizza?
I love my little boys' magazines. Their National Geographic Kids just arrived today and already I'm diving into the good stuff this publication has to offer. Stuff like human footprints.Every time you eat a snack, ride in a car, or take a shower, you leave a mark on the world -- that's your "human footprint," say the National Geographic experts who go on to offer 10 ways we all affect the Earth. One look at these incredible facts, they say, and we'll realize how using less really can save the planet.
In our lifetime we will:
- Chow down on 5,054 slices of pizza or 632 whole pizza pies.
- Snack on 14,518 candy bars, enough to fill about 12 shopping carts.
- Eat an amount of hamburger meat equal to the weight of a family car.
- Consume 12,888 oranges. A stack of the fruit would be taller than two Eiffel Towers.
- Throw away enough trash to fill up about five garbage trucks.
- Own eight microwave ovens, 10 TV sets, and 13 cars.
- Use more than 1.2 million gallons of water. This would overflow two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
- Gobble down 9,917 pounds of potatoes. That's the weight of about eight average-size racehorses.
- Scrub up with 656 bars of soap. If stacked, these bars would stand taller than a five-story building.
- Drive about 627,000 miles or 25 times around the world, using enough gas to fill three fuel tankers.
Clearly, cutting back can save our planet. It many respects, it can also save our waistlines.
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3-24-2008 @ 9:46AM
marcie0305 said...
Great post - I think about this all the time: people: if the planet dies, we do too. Please do your part!
(Actually, I don't think the planet will die, I think it will retaliate!)
~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com/
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