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girls aged 10-14 in 1991: 500
Passengers per minute through London
Heathrow Airport in 1992: 114
Expected in 2016, assuming no night-flying: 144
Polluting jetliners overflying the UK per hour: 25
Expected in 1997: 32
Major power stations required just to operate
Britain's 38.3 million television sets: 2
Mississippi River flow-equivalents required to supply world water consumption: 8
Expected within a human lifetime: 18
Number of cattle per number of humans: 0.23
Per Somalian: 0.63
People evacuated from the world's chemical
accident sites per year in the 1980s: 114,000
Estimated major pesticide poisoning accidents per minute: 2
Annual kilograms of municipal waste per Briton: 353
Per Finn: 500
Bodyweights of waste produced by an average American in a lifetime: 4,000
By an average person in the Third World: 150
Daily museum attendances in Bangladesh: 695,000
In Britain: 49,000
In Pakistan: 1,536
Sources: Home Office; RM/BAA (18-Hour Day); ibid; RM/Civil Aviation Authority (18-Hour Day); ibid; RM/Powergen/BARB/AGB Research (2000MW station, 100W TV); State of the World 1993; RM/Info 93 (AD 2050, pop: 11.5bn); RM/Jeremy Rifkin/Helicon; RM/Euromonitor/Houghton Mifflin; RM/Euromonitor; RM/WHO; Eurostat; ibid; Moving Picture Bulletin;ibid; RM/Euromonitor; ibid; ibid.
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