Text #552

One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves.

—from Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, a book by Fred Pearce

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8915. bhuvan (bhuvan_rawal) 46.53 95% 2012-04-07
8916. Borin Georin (kekbot131a) 46.53 97% 2018-03-16
8917. Kuba (kshailoobekuulu) 46.53 95% 2018-09-30
8918. Stepien (stepien) 46.53 96% 2020-08-25
8919. $in (sind) 46.53 89% 2014-01-03
8920. Uzoma (virtuah) 46.53 95% 2018-08-13
8921. yes but (krosis2706) 46.53 93% 2020-09-03
8922. Saitor (saitor) 46.53 90% 2013-07-15
8923. Omar (omarxive12) 46.53 94% 2020-12-27
8924. Kamol (danny_13) 46.52 93% 2023-04-02
8925. Theodore (aleena_learner) 46.52 98% 2022-07-10
8926. ricky (vn4u4m) 46.52 89% 2011-07-05
8927. jpacs (soypacs) 46.52 2011-02-01
8928. bekanur98 (bekanur98) 46.51 95% 2019-02-12
8929. nikhil (nikhilsimha) 46.51 89% 2012-09-06
8930. stryder3334 (stryder3334) 46.51 95% 2023-09-12
8931. Tíu Đây (tunqa) 46.50 94% 2021-03-21
8932. mu (typetypetypetypetype) 46.50 98% 2022-11-23
8933. Nathan (k_nathan) 46.50 92% 2022-09-30
8934. shaan (shaanheer) 46.50 93% 2013-10-01
8935. Edwin (musicbender) 46.49 94% 2016-03-25
8936. Wodz (wodz2009) 46.49 85% 2012-10-05
8937. Shannon (stuua) 46.49 86% 2011-05-24
8938. Diego (dsee) 46.49 95% 2020-03-29
8939. Darsh (gothmoth) 46.48 96% 2022-01-06
8940. aditya (addy2001) 46.48 94% 2021-09-27
8941. Rohitax (rohitax) 46.48 88% 2014-01-07
8942. Navin (navin_k) 46.48 2010-05-25
8943. Michał (nfpl404) 46.47 100% 2013-09-19
8944. Pakistani Boy (saqlainpak) 46.47 94% 2015-09-26

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Default (English) 22,371 50.58 May 21, 2010
Instant Death Mode 60 60.48 May 26, 2010
Smoke Rise Prep 16 41.22 January 28, 2016
Riverside Middle School 13 42.85 January 24, 2011
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Walsh Middle School 1 35.38 September 9, 2011
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