Running the Numbers

Ever seen so much destruction in your life that the zeros lost their meaning as you read each word in the news without emotion?

Try this:

• 9 986 400 000 supermarket paper bags are used annually in the United States alone.
  

Did you feel anything? Or was there so many zeros that you felt nothing?

What if we could see such numbers?....

This picture contains 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.)....

60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds...

One hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail...

Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes...

Taken from - Running the Numbers, by Chris Jordan.

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