This document summarizes the environmental impact of Valentine's Day, noting that it causes global warming through various activities like commuting, housing, flying, food production, and manufacturing gifts. It provides data on the number of Valentine's Day cards sent, roses purchased, candy hearts eaten, and chocolate boxes sold each year. It also lists the raw materials and supply chains required to produce some popular Valentine's Day gifts.

1. Broken Hearts
How Valentine’s Day causes global warming

2. Commuting
1,738
Housing
1,314
Stuff
413
Flying
9,126
Government
3,314
Food
524
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3. Where does
the“stuff” come
from?

6. 188 x 106 Valentine’s Day cards sent
110 x 106 roses purchased
8 x 109 Necco hearts eaten
35 x 106 boxes of chocolate sold
$650 x 106 spent on gifts

8. Chocolate

9. Dairy
Cocoa

10. Teddy bear

11. Oil

12. Gold and diamond
earrings

13. Diamonds
Gold

14. Lingerie (sorry! no picture!
use your imagination!)

15. Steel
Nylon

16. Roses

17. Roses

18. Screwing the planet
one present at a
time

19. “Alternatives”