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What's your 'human' footprint? - Diapers and Showers and Sodas, Oh My!

April 11, 2008View for printing

It's hard to imagine what a human being consumes in a lifetime. All the food you eat, the potatoes, the fruits, the bread, the chickens.

An eye-opening look at the impact a single human can have on the planet.

And everything you drink, and all the clothes you buy and toss. All the furniture and appliances and toothbrushes and bath products and newspapers. The list goes on and on. If the rest of the world consumed at the rate Americans do, we would need five planets worth of resources to cover it.

By ELIZABETH VARGAS, HOWIE MASTERS and MICHAEL MENDELSOHN

Full Story: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4618854&page=1
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