The Green Timberwolf

Global Consumption Facts

Blogged By: Zack, Tanner, and Zach

To promote the UN Global Goal 12 of sustainable consumption our group is holding a recycling drive. Here are some facts that show why we need sustainable consumption.

 

Did You Know?

• 3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year while almost 1 billion people go undernourished

and another 1 billion hungry.

• The US and Canada, with 5.2% of the world’s population, are responsible for 31.5%

of consumption.

• The illustration to the left shows the planets needed to sustain the world at different countries’ levels of consumption
• The illustration below illustrates how much the western world spends on products, and how these could have been used to solve most of previous UN millennium goals

http://newint.org/features/2006/11/01/facts/

http://newint.org/features/2006/11/01/facts/