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Your support makes all the difference.Average age of British Airways' 34-strong fleet
of BAC One-Eleven 500 aircraft: 20
Tons of global-warming carbon dioxide emitted
by British Airways flights per day: 32,000
Years between major tidal floodings predicted
at Cardiff by 2030 on present global-warming
trends: 3-5
Chests of UK opium destroyed by Chinese authorities in 1838, prompting Britain's seizure
of Hong Kong and enforcement of legal
opium in China: 20,000
McDonald's restaurants in the USA, where rubbish
recycling is being practised: 8,500
McDonald's restaurants in the UK where rubbish
recycling is being practised: 3
Year of extinction of the dodo bird
in Mauritius: 1670
Year of the first British laws to protect birds: 1868
Box office take of Hollywood film Batman Returns
in the first three days: dollars 47,000,000
Year of coffee-drinking's introduction to Paris: 1643
Gallons of coffee drunk by Americans
per capita each year: 25
Urban populations in developed countries
by 2000: 900,000,000
Urban populations in developing countries
by 2000: 1,900,000,000
New cars sold in EC states each year: 12,000,000
Sources: British Airways; ibid; Friends of the Earth; Terence McKenna: Food of the Gods; The Economist; McDonald's; Scientific American, Vol 267 No 1; ibid; New Statesman & Society, Vol 5, 210; Terence McKenna, op cit; Euro Monitor Consumer USA 1992; Mustafa Tolba: Saving Our Planet; ibid; Time Books: The Single European Market
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