
Originally Posted by
The Man
However, the people living in the Third World are not the ones using all the resources. The USA contains 4% of the world's population, and consumes 35% of the world's resources, while the rest of the world, containing 96% of the world's population, consumes 65% of the world's resources. That means that, per capita, Americans use over twelve times as much resources as the rest of the world, averaged out. When you compare Americans to the poorest thirty percent of the world, it's even larger - I think it's a hundred times per capita or something.