Natalia,
Where on earth did you get the nonsense that the US is causing 100,000 deaths a year in Iraq?
Are we doing better than I thought against the terrorists?
Perhaps we should do something about Africa,
where a 100,000 deaths or so happen all the time.
Harry
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005
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Subject: [Futurework] even more
disturbing stats
Guns inside of the US
don't come close to touching the direct effects of US use of guns
and other weaponry abroad. I think that 100,000 deaths per annum in Iraq should be included in US violent death
stats, especially since Iraq
is now owned by the US
and its multinational corporations partners.
stats that are far scarier than the local ones of
the Western world.
The uproar of the poor becomes more acute when one thinks about the enormous
cost that the "arms race" presents.
It has been estimated, that in 2000 the world spent
756 billion dollars on arms.
This figure would have been enough to feed for a year,
4 billion poor children (almost the entire population of the earth).
The price of a war tank is enough to build schools for
30 thousand students.
The cost of a jetfighter represents that of 40000
pharmacies.
90 countries are still suffering from the plague of
the antipersonnel
landmines; 20.000 people a year become victims of these landmine
explosions.
Half of the victims of the last fifty years of conflicts
have been children.
It is estimated that in the whole world there are more
than 300.000 child soldiers.
In industrialized countries military expenses are 30
times greater than aid to developing countries.
The average price of a landmine
Production USD 8,00
Deactivation USD 5,000
Modern war's victims are:
34% children
59% civilians
7% Soldiers
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Look at website for excellent graphics version of
Miniature Earth info.
THE MINIATURE EARTH from CD version
If we could turn the population of the earth into a
small community of 100 people, i.e. these are percentages of world population,
keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this:
61 Asians
12 Europeans
14 Americans (from North and South America)
13 Africans
01 Australian (Oceania)
50 women
50 men
10 are homosexuals
33 are Christian (Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox)
18 are Muslims
16 are Hindus
16 are non-religious
6 are Buddhists
11 practice other religions
41 live without basic sanitation
16 live without an improved water
source
6 people own 59% of the entire wealth of the community
13 are hungry or malnourished
14 can't read
only 7 are educated at a secondary level
only 8 have a computer
only 4 have an internet connection
1 adult, aged 15-49, has HIV/AIDS.
Of the village's total annual expenditures of just
over US$ 3,000,000 per year:
US$ 181,000 is spent on weapons and warfare...
US$ 159,000 is spent on education...
US$ 132,000 is spent on health care.
If you keep your food in a refrigerator
and your clothes in a closet
if you have a roof over your head
and have a bed to sleep in
you are richer than 75% of the entire world population.
If you have a bank account
you're one of the 30 wealthiest people in the world.
25 struggle to live on US$ 1.00 per day or less...
47 struggle to live on US$ 2.00 per day or less.
Work with passion
Love without needing to be loved
Appreciate what you have
and do your best for a better world.
The fastest growing section of the population is the
“oldest-olds”; the over eighties. By 2050 there will be 2.2 million
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