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2.5 – 5 billion tons of U.S. soil are eroded every year.

2.5 – 5 billion tons of U.S. soil are eroded every year. U.S. at night. U.S. paved land is now the size of Georgia. Proxima Cetauri is 25 trillion miles away!!. U.S. Municipal Waste and Recycling. Year   1991 2001 U.S. Population 249,439,545 286,345,000

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2.5 – 5 billion tons of U.S. soil are eroded every year.

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  1. 2.5 – 5 billion tons of U.S. soil are eroded every year.

  2. U.S. at night. U.S. paved land is now the size of Georgia.

  3. Proxima Cetauri is 25 trillion miles away!!

  4. U.S. Municipal Waste and Recycling Year   1991 2001 U.S. Population 249,439,545 286,345,000 Municipal Waste Generated (tons) 293,613,000 409,029,000 Percentage Recycled 11.5% 32% Tons Disposed 259,847,000 278,139,720 Tons Disposed Per Person 1.041 0.979

  5. WASTE IMPORTERS, 2000 ( TONS) 1.Pennsylvania 9,764,000  2. Virginia 3,891,000 3. Michigan 3,124,000 4. Illinois  1,548,000 5. Indiana    1,531,000      WASTE EXPORTERS, 2000  ( TONS) 1.New York 5,600,000 2.New Jersey 1,800,000 3. Missouri 1 ,793,000 4. Maryland 1,547,000 5.Massachusetts  1,218,000

  6. INTERNATIONAL WASTE TRADE (2001) Waste Imported into the U.S. 30,567,000 tons Waste Exported out of the U.S. -18,255,030 tons Net Import of Waste Into the U.S. 12,311,970 tons

  7. (2005)

  8. Plastic is dissolving faster than expected. Good news – amount of pieces of plastic not increasing. Bad news – the plastic is very toxic to ocean life.

  9. “The Lord can make you tumble, The Lord can make you turn, The Lord can make you rock and roll, But the Lord can’t make you burn. Burn on, big river, burn on.” (Randy Newman, “Burn on, Big River”) Cuyahoga River fires: 1952, 1969

  10. Percentages of Texas River miles showing pollution (2002)

  11. About 30 million people in the U.S. have impaired hearing.

  12. At 10 a.m. today: 6,880,879,910 (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop

  13. Density of the human population 1994

  14. Percentages of biomes impacted by human activity.

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