Makes you think: What can $611 billion buy?
by Marshall Brain
#9 is probably the most significant:
According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.
At the upper range of those estimates, the $611 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for seven years.
This list could go on and on: Several trips to Mars… A significant overhaul of the nation’s infrastructure… An Apollo-style crash program in alternative energy to end the use of fossil fuels… A solution for CO2 in the atmosphere…
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