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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. |
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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. |
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