El consumo humano

Imagine that you could see in a pile in front of you all the things that you will use and produce in the course of your life. This is the story of my life, your life, an average life. This is the story of human consumption.

The consumption of each person on the planet varies enormously. We are all different, but together, all of us, the 6,500 million human beings, we become on average. We then base ourselves on children. Through them we calculate the consumption of an average life.

A journey of 2475,576,000 seconds from the cradle to the grave. So, where do we start? The most important job we face during our lives is to have enough calories on board to keep us alive. Our bodies need a constant flow of energy similar to the amount required to light a 100 watt bulb.

and at the beginning everything comes from the milk then it is the first thing we are going to show you your consumption of milk in the course of your life so it would be if each liter was delivered to your house the same day

Through time, all those cups of tea, those cups of cereal and those coffees ascend to this, like about 9,000 liters.

We base almost all our calculations in Great Britain. We use the life of one of its inhabitants to represent an average member of the human race and determine its consumption over the world around it. Some people will drink more milk, some less. 9,000 liters is the average for a person who lives in northern Europe.

However, the figures would be very different in other parts of the world. Managing these downloads is never easy, especially when children are not yet trained to go to the bathroom. Which explains why we are all wrapped in diapers during the first two years of our lives. So, how many times will you need a diaper change during this time?

This is followed by 3,800 diapers. Although convenient for parents, all these diapers are a heavy burden for society in general. Ignoring the oil, trees and energy we use to manufacture them, each diaper is used only a few hours. And we throw away thousands of millions of diapers a year, making them the largest component of sanitary fillings.

and plastics in diapers that avoid leaks could take 500 years to decompose and that is only one of the reasons why when it reaches two years of age a child in the world developed will be responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than a person in Tanzania will generate in the course of his life but we will not stay in diapers and feeding us milk forever

we will not take long to move on to solid food and something that most of us will choose is some kind of meat in the course of life this will be what we will eat four heads of cattle 21 sheep

and 15 pigs. However, chicken carries the weight of our carnivorous tendencies. We will eat a little more than 1200 during our life. And not content with consuming huge amounts of chicken, we will also eat this amount of their non-native offspring.

This apple is made up of 5,272 apples, the amount you will eat throughout your life. This carrot is made up of the 10,866 individual carrots that we will eat in the course of our life. Carrots can be harvested from the ground, washed and eaten, or they can be processed, peeled, packed and sold at a price seven times higher than the original.

It seems that we fall in love with the products washed, processed and packed. And all these wrappings soon accumulate. Each one of us will discard all these wrappings of edible products. In the course of a life, this goes up to 8.5 tons in total.

In 78.5 years you will use 4,239 rolls of toilet paper. It may seem like a lot, but there will be a lot to clean. And with everything you speak you will meet people, make friends and leave a mark. How many people do we all know?

It is a more difficult question to answer than it seems initially. There are people with whom we give our hand, people who serve us in the warehouses, that girl you passed in the street and you can not get away from your mind. To get the calculation we must establish what it is to know someone. The researchers then only tell the people you know by name and with whom you communicated in the course of the last two years.

Based on this definition, it was calculated that the average human network across the world is 1,700 people in the course of our life. It is the number of people in the stands of this football stadium. We will sow the seeds of 1,700 friendships. Some will be lifelong friends, others will be colleagues and family ties. Some will be people we will only know for a few days.

but on average you will have approximately 300 people in your social group and 1,700 people will become part of your footprint each one of us will bathe many times in his life we put a hula hoop for each of those bathrooms

There are 7,163 of these ducks, with a consumption of about a million liters of water. This obsession with the bathroom is something very recent.

It is likely that all the great lovers of history would have smelled horrible to us. You can believe that your bathroom is attested at this time, but it is not surprising when you know what we use in the course of life. 656 bars of soap 198 bottles of shampoo 272 deodorants

276 tubes of dental paste to apply on our 78 new toothbrushes 411 products for skin care 35 gel tubes for combing 37 perfume bottles 25 nail polish bottles and 21 lip pencil tubes in some countries people do not drink alcohol in others alcohol is the essence of national identity

But on average, this is the amount of beer that is drunk in the course of a life. About 6,000 liters. And this is the average amount of wine that we will all receive in our life. 1,694 bottles.

not long ago everything that was needed in life was a pair of ruffles and a pointed rod but now we need things loads and loads of things

Todos pasaremos por 3.5 lavadoras, 3.4 neveras, 3.2 microondas, 4.8 televisores, 9.8 reproductores de DVDs, 15 computadoras, por no mencionar los hornos, equipos de alta fidelidad, reproductores de video, walkmans, teléfonos, camas, sofás, sillas, cámaras, bicicletas estáticas y mil y un bienes de consumo que están todavía por inventar, pero sin los cuales pronto no podremos vivir.

A field that is now considered essential but that barely existed 20 years ago is that of electronic equipment, such as computers. Manufacturing an average requires at least 240 kilograms of fossil fuels, along with 22 kilograms of surging chemicals, in addition to 1.5 tons of water. And your desk system uses, in materials, before leaving the factory, the weight of a large car.

But it's not just about making these items. There is also the enormous challenge of getting rid of them when they are no longer useful. We have already seen the amount of food packages that we vote. That was just the beginning. Each one of us will be responsible for sending 40 tons of garbage to the sanitary fillings during our life. Two of these containers full to the brim.

In addition to consuming material goods, we consume a huge amount of information and culture and by far the greatest contribution is made by television. It brought the whole world to our rooms. Minutes after something happens on the planet, we can all follow the event live on television. We observe it for more than 148 minutes a day, 900 hours in a year.

two thousand nine hundred and forty-four days of our lives eight years are complete that we spent sitting in front of this box in the course of your life you will be offered the opportunity to vote in about 50 elections and this is the amount of mine that will be needed to make 50 crosses this is your physical contribution to democracy

and you don't even have to supply your own pencil. Of the 1,700 people that each of us will know, 305 will die of heart disease, 179 by apoplexy, 111 will succumb to influenza and pneumonia, 99 will die of lung cancer, 92 due to diseases of the lower respiratory tract,

63 will die of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. 49 will die of colon cancer. 32 of breast cancer. You will also meet 10 people who will take their lives. 9 who will die in car accidents and 1 person who will die in a fire.

Since we know what will happen, maybe we should take advantage of the maximum time we have. This is your footprint on planet Earth. This is your human footprint. But we brought nothing to this world and nothing we can take with us.