Tonight we have an extraordinary visual representation of what each of us consume in a year, and in a lifetime. It’s quite sobering when you see it all at once, for it brings home just how much impact each American has on the environment. Here’s ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas.
It’s an amazing picture of consumption and waste. Each year, Americans throw out 18 billion disposable diapers - enough to stretch around the world 90 times. That’s part of the reason an American at the age of one already has a bigger carbon footprint than a Tanzanian will have in a lifetime.
In your lifetime, if you’re an average American, you will drink 13,056 pints of milk. Do you like soft drinks? Well, you’ll consume 43,371 sodas and then toss the cans. In our lives, on average, each of us will buy seven washing machines, five refrigerators, seven air conditioners. And each one of these rubber ducks represents a shower that you will take. That’s 28,433 showers over your lifetime using 700,000 gallons of water.
But what about your home itself? It takes on average some 64 trees to provide the wood in your home. More than one million acres of productive farmland and open space gets bulldozed to make way for sprawlingdevelopment every year in this country. That’s two acres of open land, the area behind me, disappearing every minute, every day.
And as for those diapers, just to make enough diapers for one American toddler for two and a half years takes 1,900 pints of crude oil and the pulp of four and a half trees. Americans make up five percent of the world’s population. If everyone else lived like we do, we would need four planets to supply the resources and store the massive amount of waste. Elizabeth Vargas, ABC News, New York.
extraordinary : 비상한, 보통이 아닌, 비범한, 놀라운, 엄청난 consume : ~을 소비[소모]하다, 다 써버리다(use up), <화재 ·병·비탄 등이> …을 소멸시키다, 파괴하다. ex. A huge fire consumed the entire block. 대화재가 그 구획 전체를 다 태워버렸다. sobering : 정신나게하는, 진지하게 만드는 / making you think about things in a serious way ex. The news had a sobering effect. 그 뉴스는 사람들을 다시 한번 생각 케 했다. * sober 술 취하지 않은, 맑은 정신의, 술을 깨게 하다, 침착하게 하다, 진지 하게 하다, 술이 깨다, 진지 [냉정] 해지다 all at once : 갑자기(suddenly) , 다 한꺼번에, 동시에 ex. All at once there was someone knocking on the door. ex. There were too many things happening all at once and I couldn't take it all in. bring home : 절실히 자각시키다, 통감하게 하다, 뼈저리게 느끼 게 하다, 충분히 납득시키다 ex. We should bring home to children the value of reading. * hit/strike home : 적중하다, 급소를 찌르다, 아픈데를 찌르다, ~을 통감하게 하다 / if something you say hits or strikes home, people understand it and accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize. ex. Your comment really hit home with me. 네 그 말은 정 말이지 내 아픈곳을 찔렀어. * hit where it hurts = touch a sore spot = touch a nerve ending: 아픈데를 찌르다 impact : (물체와 물체의) 충돌 (collision), 충격, (강한) 영향, vt.vi. (~ 와) 충돌하다, 충격을 주다, 강한 영향 을 주다 * have an impact on~ ~ 에 영향을 미치다 ex. Internet shopping has begun to have a serious impact on the traditional bookshops. waste : 낭비, 허비, 쓰레기, 폐물, 폐수, 찌꺼기 * human waste : 사람의 분뇨 / animal waste : 축산폐기물 [분뇨]/ toxic waste : 유독성 폐기물 / waste products 폐기물 / industrial waste (products) 산업폐기물 / nuclear waste : 핵폐기물 / industrial waste water 산업폐수 / industrial waste water treatment 산업폐수처리 throw out : ~ 을 내던지다, �아내다, <계획 등을> 퇴짜놓다, <법안 ·판결 등을> 거부 [부인, 부결]하다 (to reject or discard) ex. I wanted to kill him, but instead I just threw him out of the house. ex. He was thrown out of the Olympic team after testing positive for drugs. ex. The judge threw out the case. 판사는 그 사건을 반려했다. disposable : 처분할 수 있는, <종이 제품 등이> 사용 후 버 릴 수 있는, 일회용의, [종종 pl.]일회용 물건 ex. disposable diapers[cups, towels] 1회용 종이 기저귀[컵, 수건] carbon : 탄소 * carbon monoxide : 일산화탄소 / carbon dioxide 이산화탄소 * carbon footprint : 탄소 발자국(개인이나 기업이 내뿜는 온실가스 배출 량) pint : 파인트, 약 0.47리터 soft drink : 비알코올성 음료, 탄산이 주입된 청 량 음료 toss : ~ 을 내던지다, 팽개치다, ~ 을 (던져) 버리다, [스포츠] < 공을> 토스하다, 던져 올리기, 토스 rubber : 고무 gallon : 갤런(3.7853리터) on average : 평균적으로 farmland : 농지, 경지 open space : 빈터, 공지, 개 활지(open land) bulldoze : 불도저로 <땅을> 고르다 [파다, 나르다], 억지로 통 과시키다, 강행하다 * bulldoze a person into doing ~ 남을 협박해서 ~ 하게 하다 make way (for~) : 1. 길을 비켜주다, 길을 양보하다 2. to be replaced by someone or something ex. We were asked to make way for the bride and groom. ex. Most of the old buildings have made way for hotels and offices. sprawl : (큰 대자로) 몸을 쭉 펴고 눕다 [앉다], <육 지.덩굴.건물 등이> 볼품없이 뻗어 있다, <도시 등이> 꼴사납게 [불 규칙하게] 뻗어나다 ex. We sprawled in front of the fire and watched TV. 난로 앞에서 팔다리를 뻗고 TV를 봤다. development : 1. (새로운) 사실 [사정], 사태, 상황의 진전, 발생한 일 (a new event that changes a situation) 2. (부동산) 개발 <불가산 >, (특히 부동산업자에 의해 조성된) 주택단지나 빌딩단지 <가산> ex. new political developments 새로운 정치 정세 ex. The land was sold for development. / ex. a new development on the edge of town as for : ~ 에 대해서 [관해서](라면) (= when it comes to~ , speaking of~, concerning~ )/ used for introducing a subject that is related to what you have just been talking about ex. As for the children, they were happy enough to spend all day on the beach. toddler : 아장아장 걷는 아이 * toddle 아장아장 걷다 crude oil : 원유 make up : ~ 을 구성[형성]하다, 화장하다, 만회하다 ex. Eleven players make up a team. 11 명의 선수가 한 팀을 구성하고 있 다. ex. All things in our universe are made up of atoms. 우주의 만물은 원자 로 이루어져 있다. * make up ( for~) : (~ 을) 보상하다 (compensate), 만회하다, 벌충하다 ex. Nothing can make up for the loss of a child. planet : 행성 * the planet : the planet Earth and everyone and everything on it: used, for example, when you are talking about the environment ex. policies to protect the future of the planet