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United States

United States. From: Material World , Peter Menzel. China. India. Mali. US Annual Consumption of Materials. 1 billion tons = 3.3 tons per person = 140 pounds per week per person. Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. (5 feet * 10 feet).

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United States

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  1. United States From: Material World, Peter Menzel

  2. China

  3. India

  4. Mali

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

  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)

  9. 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%.

  10. From “50 Facts that Should Change the World” By Jessica Williams, 2004. More than 70 per cent of the world's population has never heard a dial tone. To fly a kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the UK means five times its weight in greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere. 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.

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

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

  13. Old methodology

  14. New methodology

  15. From UCLA Survey of Incoming College Freshmen

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

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

  18. Atlantis, 380 feet long

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

  20. Bugatti Veyron, $1.4 million, 6 MPG

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