Add It Up - Growing pains
A look at the numbers
Acres of tropical rainforest lost daily: 80,000
Acres of trees lost in metro Atlanta daily: 54
Large trees planted by Trees Atlanta since 1985: 68,000
Acres of new concrete and asphalt in Atlanta each day: 28
Atlanta’s population in 1980: 424,922
Atlanta’s population today: 451,600
Metro areas’s population in 1980: 1.8 million
Metro area’s population today: 3.9 million
Percentage increase in single-family housing in metro Atlanta since 2000: 69
Gallons of gasoline saved annually because of MARTA ridership: 19.3 million
Gallons of water consumed daily in metro Atlanta: 652 million
Average yearly rainfall in Atlanta: 50 inches
Sources: Atlanta Regional Commission, MARTA, Trees Atlanta, mongabay.com