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Consumption per person per year in developed country:

500 kg of steel

25 kg of aluminium

200 kg of industrial salt (cold weather road maintenance)

3800 l of oil

America (6% of the world population) consumes

30% of world oil,

30% of its minerals, metals and energy...

...30 times the consumption of a person in an emerging nation.

In the mean time...

The world population increases at an accelerating rates and is expected to double by 2040

and the world oil supply will dry up in the next 50 years.