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Current.Contributors U.S.: 4.5 pounds of waste produced / person / day in 2000 By 2030, 1 person in 4 will be a slum dweller 30,000-40,000 night scavengers in Buenos Aires Argentina: 12% of children under 14 are working 55% of Delhi’s population not connected to sewer system 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes 1988: Poland ranked last in Europe in housing: 284 dwellings / 1,000 persons Every day 200,000 move to cities, worldwide 6 million of 12 million in Istanbul live in slums Buenos Aires: 300,000 to 500,000 live in slums Uganda pupil / teacher ratio, primary school: 50 / 1 1 in 5 in a U.S. soup kitchen is a child Adult admission to the Museum of Modern Art: $20 25 million worldwide are internally displaced Number of children abandoned: 60 million 120 million rural workers live in cities throughout China Wal-Mart 2006 plans: 530 new stores, 55 million square feet Nearly 50% of all hardwood logged in the U.S. is used for pallets Daily, 40,000 people die from diseases related to drinking polluted water Chicago's Southside: home to more than 53 toxic landfills and factories Indianapolis: 7,000 abandoned houses Thailand, tsunami, 2004: 7,500 houses damaged or destroyed Berlin lost 1,300,000 residents from 1940-1983 60% of African Americans and Latinos live near uncontrolled toxic waste sites Post-Katrina, FEMA spent $5 billion to buy 300,000 trailer homes U.S.: 3.5 million experience homelessness each year; 1.35 million are children 800,000 Sri Lankans homeless after tsunami Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia: 400,000 houses, each costs $270-$380 USD 2.5 million tried to escape as Hurricane Rita closed on Houston Amazon deforestation: six football fields a minute 600-700 sea vessels scrapped on Asian beaches annually More than 1,000 unauthorized settlements in Delhi GM in Flint, Michigan. 1980s: 80,000 employees. 2006: 20,000 4,000: new homes needed/hour to accommodate worldwide urban influx one half of the world's population lives or works in buildings constructed of earth Beijing: floating population of 4 million-more than 25% of the city’s population Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia: 1 police station / 100,000 people Koepi, 60-person Berlin squat, sold to developers in 2007 393,000 Israeli settlers in occupied Palestinian territories 53% of Sri Lankan industrial fatalities @ construction sites 10-30% of U.S. waste from demolition or construction |
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