• World Environmental Facts

    • Find facts on everything, from child labor and slavery to toxic waste and climate change. And see how our choice of products affects the world we live in.

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    • Number of planet Earths we need

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    • to provide resources and absorb our waste
    • right now

    • Resources extracted from Earth

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    • tons extracted
    • globally, this year

    • Total waste dumped

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    • tons
    • globally, this year

    • Fair trade products sold

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    • US dollars spent on fairtrade products
    • in the world, this year

    • World population

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    • people
    • in the world, right now

    • Consumers

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    • people in the consumer class
    • globally, right now

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Something to consider

If Earth’s history is compared to a calendar year, modern human has existed for 23 minutes and we have used one third of Earth’s natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds.

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