Book Title: Being Jain And Living Green
Author(s): Arvind Bobra, Amit Jain
Publisher: Arvind Bobra

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________________ CHICAGO JULY 3-6, 2008 The Story of Stuff - Consumption The bottom line is we are consuming too much - too fast - with disregard to the environment and unsustainability of our voracious consumption In the last 30 years, 1/3 of natural resource space has been consumed - wasted away through cutting, mining, hauling - In the US just less than 4% of the forests remain - 40% of the US water has become undrinkable July 4th, 2008 Slide 22

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