The Utah Population and Environment Coalition:  UPEC

• I = P × A × T
  (where I = Environmental Impact, P = Population, A = Affluence, T = Technology)
• Every 20 minutes the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life, at least 27,000 species per year.
(Source: Overpopulation.org 02/04/2003)
• Every year, global population increases by about 78 million people.
(Source: Population Awareness/ Scripps Howard News Service 02/05/2003)
• It is estimated that humanity is consuming the earths resources 20% faster than they can be sustained.
(Source: Population Awareness/ Scripps Howard News Service 02/05/2003)
• It takes 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat in modern western farming systems. It takes 214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
(Source: Paul Ehrlich & the Population Bomb 02/21/2003)
• More than 500 million people world-wide currently do not have enough clean water to drink. By the year 2025, up to 3 billion people may be living in water-scarce conditions.
(Source: Healthy Families Environments/Sierra Club 03/03/2003)
• Nearly 90% of the most prized fish in the oceans are gone.
(Source: The Week 06/20/2003)
• Approximately 25% of the world's mammals and 11% of its birds are at significant risk of extinction as a result of the degradation and destruction of habitats due in part to the stress of population growth.
(Source: National Wildlife Federation 06/10/03)
• If everyone in the world consumed like the average US citizen, we would need at least four more planet earths.
(Source: Purchasing Power, World Watch Paper 166 09/05/2003)
• The average US citizen uses ten times the chemical fertilizer and pesticides on a lawn than the average farmer does on crops.
(Source: the reporter Fall 2003)
• The more developed world uses over five times the energy per capita used by the less developed world. North America uses over eight times as much energy per person as does Latin America.
• Typical U.S. Household generates 55,000 lbs of CO₂ every year.
• More than 1 billion single use plastic bags are used daily.
• A 15 year old tree can be processed into about 700 paper grocery bags and sequestors about 50lbs of CO₂ per year study.
• Every gallon of gasoline used generates 20lbs of CO₂.
• U.S. citizens average 10,000 miles of travel per year.
• Americans average 22 acres of land consumption per capita (28 if you have a day job). The global average is 13 acres.