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By Josh Sevin
12 Jan 2000
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  • percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010


  • percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals


  • percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging


  • percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned


  • dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent


  • percentage by which fish species in Canadian lakes have declined due to acid rain


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  • percentage by which CFC consumption rose in the developing world between 1986 and 1995


  • acres of wetlands that are vanishing per hour in southern Louisiana


  • percentage of the world's grain harvest that is fed to livestock, poultry, or fish




    • Sources:
    1 -- World Resources Institute
    2 -- National Wildlife Federation
    3 -- Earth Communications Office
    4 -- EPA
    5 -- Earth Communications Office
    6,7 -- World Resources Institute
    8 -- Christian Science Monitior
    9 -- National Wildlife Federation.

    Read more about: Canada | food and agriculture | Germany | green living | lakes | Louisiana | marine life | pollution and waste | United States | wetlands | all of these topics
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    Josh Sevin is a graduate student in MIT's planning program. Previously, he was an editor at Greenwire environmental news service and a researcher for U.S. News.
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