Flashes: July 23, 2014

US per person annual textile fiber consumption 71.8 pounds per year (2012, down from peak of 91.0 in 2005) and 91.3 pounds per year of textiles were discarded -- 14.3 pounds recycled and 77 pounds discarded to landfill.
 Sources USDA & EPA

US per person annual food consumption 1,996 pounds per year (2011) not counting the nearly 500 pounds per person discarded.
 Sources USDA & NRDC

US per person annual energy consumption 6,784 kg of oil equivalent per capita (2013, down from peak of 8,438 kgoe in 1978) compared with an average of 4,150 kgoe per capita for the average of the OECD, 3,020 for the UK, and 2,087 for Portugal....for the record, Canada is at 7,270 kgoe per capita.
 Source World Bank

US per person annual water consumption 625,152 gallons (2011) compared with the world average of 304,657 gallons, the average for Germany at 313,676 gallons, and the average for the UK at 276,721 gallons.
 Source Waterfootprint.org

Currently, the US could completely support itself on recycled textiles, support an additional 40% of population without growing an ounce of more food, and support an additional 100% (minimum) more population without generating an additional BTU of energy or pumping an additional gallon of water...

If we wanted to.

Enjoy the journey!