Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
044 N. Agricultural Hall
405-744-6418
wrr@mail.pss.okstate.edu
www.nue.okstate.edu

Picture of the EARTH

China uses an excessive amount of coal on an annual basis, knowing full well that coal has the very worst environmental finger print of all the energy sources.

Brazil has depleted > 25% of its native rainforest that in turn was the single largest carbon sink in the world.  They continue to ignore USA efforts to reduce further deforestation.

AIDS is an epidemic.  Botswana has an adult HIV prevalence of 24.1% .  Many variants of HIV present in the USA can be traced to Botswana.

World H.



 

Grain Source	Cal/kg	Production, Mt, 2004	Total Calories
Wheat grain,	3394	624,093,306	2.11802E+15
Cornmeal, whole	3625	705,293,226	2.55682E+15
Rice, white	1219	608,496,284	7.41497E+14
Soybeans	1734	206,409,525	3.57837E+14
Potatoes	1092	328,865,936	3.59195E+14
Total			6.13336E+15
World Population			6,670,000,000
			/ 6.7 billion / 365
Calories per person/day from grain			2519

Total Beef if split evenly among the 6.6 billion (189 cal/person/day)
Total Fish if split evenly among the 6.6 billion (93.9 cal/person/day)
Total Milk/Cheese if split evenly among the 6.6 billion (137 cal/person/day)

Total (Beef, Fish, Milk/Cheese) = 419.9 cal/person/day
Minimum (2500 cal/person/day) (Developed/Developing)

World Population:    (on-line)   
2007     6.67 billion
2025     8.77 billion (projected)

US Census Bureau

                     Consumption of World’s Nat. Resources       Worlds Population       World’s Waste generated

                     ------------------------------------------- % ---------------------------------------------Developed       66                                                                  20                                 75
Developing      34                                                                  80                                 25

(United Nations) Americans and Europeans together spend $17 billion a year on pet food, $4 billion more than the estimated yearly additional amount needed to provide everyone in the world with basic health and nutrition.

27 Million Golfers in the USA
24.3 Billion dollars spent on golf in 2004 ($888/person/year)

82 Million Hunters USA (fishing, etc.)
108 Billion spent on hunting in 2001 ($1317/person/year)

• Food Quality, Environmental Safety:  Afforded luxury in the developed world

• 700 million people in the developing world do not have access to sufficient food

• 180 million children are underweight

• 10-12 million pre-school children die each year due to hunger, disease, malnutrition (33,000 each day)

• world population is increasing by almost 100 million people/yr. (3%/yr.)

• world food production will increase at 2%/yr.

• 1.1 billion people in developing countries were living in poverty in 1990. IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC) http://www.cgiar.org/IFPRI/index.htm

• 250000 to 500000 preschool children go blind each year due to vitamin A deficiencies.  Two thirds of these children die within months of going blind

L21:4, widow gave all she had
Mt6:21, For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

USAID

1. Total giving

2. USA Ranks Last (% of GNP spent on AID)
3. World Produces Enough Food to Feed Everyone Today