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Your support makes all the difference.Deaths known to have been caused by use of illegal cannabis in 1990: 0
Deaths known to have been caused by use of legal tobacco in 1990: 110,000
Average number of children of a woman in Pakistan: 6.6
Births avertible by investing dollars 40,000 in an extra year's education for 1,000 women in Pakistan: 660
Species of carnivore on Earth: 236
London Hyde Parks of forest being destroyed in India per year: 10,587
London Hyde Parks of forest being destroyed in Indonesia per year: 8,472
Litres of wine drunk annually per Briton: 12
Litres of wine drunk annually per French resident: 80
Times juggernauts would stretch round the world loaded nose-to-tail with sand and gravel quarried in the USA and Canada in a year: 20
Percentage of road trips by vehicle which are under five miles: 75
Toad tunnel systems built by central or local government since 1979: 5
Tonnes of wood pigeon in Great Britain: 5,000
Metres an Olympic long-jumper could jump onthe Moon: 54
Photos taken per person in the USA each year: 70
Sources: Home Office/New Scientist; ibid; Scientific American; ibid; BBC Wildlife; RM/BBC Wildlife; ibid; The Economist; ibid; Economist Intelligence Unit/Canada Handbook; Jonathon Porritt/MOT; Dept of the Environment; Chris Mead; Scientific American; Euromonitor Consumer USA 1992.
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