Bilfinger Berger Magazine 2/2008

WHAT IS THE WOLRD’S BIGGEST PROBLEM?
The european commission put this question to a sample of 26,000 eu citizens. The survey revealed the biggest problems are

• global warming/climate change: 30% Poverty,
• lack of food and drinking water: 29%
• International terrorism: 17%

(Answers as a percentage of subjects surveyed source: Eurobarometer, september 2008)

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OVER THE COURSE OF A LIFETIME, THE AVERAGE GERMAN CONSUMES ...

• 225 tons of coal
• 116 tons of oil
• 40 tons of steel
• 1.1 tons of copper
• 200 kilos of sulphur

(Source: Fluter, magazine of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education)

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ALTERNATIVES ESTABLISHED
The following energy volumes will be generated by biomass, sun, water and wind by 2020:

(Source: European Commission)

Bilfinger Berger Magazine 2/2008