Some Obscurish facts
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The 32 richest nations will spend over a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000.00 - 1000 billion) US dollars on 'defense' (it's interesting to note that no country these days will admit to having an offensive military force.... I personally find tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, unbelievably powerful sonar arrays capable of blasting marine mammals to kingdom come with 235 decibels of sound, monstrous stockpiles of landmines, cluster bombs and uranium-tipped missiles to be VERY offensive!!) in 2003, with one particular country accounting (when the Iraq war is included) for about 40% of the world total. By comparison, less than $500 million is required to finish the job of eradicating Polio from the entire planet - but it can't be found for some strange reason....... just like the $10 billion (1% of military expenses) that would be required to protect about three quarters of the world's biological diversity, is still just a pipe dream.
The 32 richest nations will spend over a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000.00 - 1000 billion) US dollars on 'defense' (it's interesting to note that no country these days will admit to having an offensive military force.... I personally find tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, unbelievably powerful sonar arrays capable of blasting marine mammals to kingdom come with 235 decibels of sound, monstrous stockpiles of landmines, cluster bombs and uranium-tipped missiles to be VERY offensive!!) in 2003, with one particular country accounting (when the Iraq war is included) for about 40% of the world total. By comparison, less than $500 million is required to finish the job of eradicating Polio from the entire planet - but it can't be found for some strange reason....... just like the $10 billion (1% of military expenses) that would be required to protect about three quarters of the world's biological diversity, is still just a pipe dream.