In the “do you know enough” list released by OCPP (below), the claim is made that it would take only $40 billion to cure the world's core problems… Of all the “stats” they list this is the one that's very much up for debate. Personally I think they really low-balled it… but… let's look at what Bucky's World Game Institute says could be done with only 25-30% of the world's military budget. That is, if military spending was scaled down to 70-75% of current levels, could we “save the world” with the rest?
I originally saw these charts in a a book published in 1996 that I bought while living in Philadelphia, but on visiting the website, I see far more up to date charts of what could be done with murder money. For those of you who are teachers, and I know there are a number on IAM, there are many fine (and free) resources on the osEarth website. The worldometers are pretty neat too.
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