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if you ran the dishwasher full instead of washing by hand · one person, one year · world average · order of magnitude
20 000 → 20 billion litres of water about 20,000 litres of water a year. a full machine uses about twelve litres; hands use sixty or more.
method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Energy Star; Stamminger 2004), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
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or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Energy Star; Stamminger 2004), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.
- range
- roughly ±50%: households, grids and countries differ widely
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- a world-average person. your number depends on where you live and how you already live; the country layer will narrow it. the ranking between actions is far more robust than any single figure.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-136 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0