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[Paul Voebel]

What if we divide all the world's wealth in the world equally among the people? What of it? And who gets what?

738 discarded plastic bags per person per year.



The most notable damage ejected plastic bags cause environmental developing countries because the recycling of household waste is available here at very low levels and is reduced, usually to the export of unsorted garbage outside the city limits. However, from 5 trillion. released into the world of plastic bags over 80% of people released in North America and Europe.

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2 liters of oil per person per day.



According to statistics, the year the world consumed over 31 billion barrels of oil - this amount could fill a tank with a diameter of 1 km and a length of 6.3 km. Meanwhile, in the world there are 1 285 000 000 000 barrels of proven oil reserves, ie, only 28.85 tons (slightly more conventional railway tank) for each inhabitant of the earth. At the current rate of consumption of a specified quantity of oil should suffice for 42 years.

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29.5 square meters. meters of minefields on the person.



Convention banning anti-personnel mines (from the 1997), 133 States have signed. However, at this point in the world is about 200,000 square meters. kilometers of minefields, mines equipped banned, and 12 of the 37 states that refused to ratify the treaty, continue their mass production. This is Vietnam, India, Iran, China, Cuba, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, North Korea and the U.S..

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177 g of wool per person per year.



Annually produced 1,200,581 tons of wool, the majority - in the "Big Three wool" (Australia, New Zealand and China). However, more than 51% of the wool used for clothing, made in Australia, where 21.5 million people account for 107 million sheep, vol. E. 5 sheep for every inhabitant.

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56.6 kg of paper and paperboard per person per year.



For one year on our planet is, on average, 383,603,402 tons of paper and paperboard. This is enough to each person each year to provide complete works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in 14 volumes), Chekhov (in 30 volumes), Lermontov (1 volume), A . S. Griboyedov (3 volumes), and Nikolai Leskov (in 38-and-volume), a series of "Library Adventure" (in 20 volumes) and the newspaper "Mole - Japanese scanwords.

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20 cm of track on the person.



The total length of railway in the world is 1,370,782 km. If people want to line up in one column along the railways around the world, the place would be enough for 5.5 billion people (about 80% of the population).

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