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Did you know that " it would cost six billion dollars a

year, on top of what is already spent, to put every

child in school by the year 2000? That is an enormous

sum. Yet it is less than one per cent of what the

world spends every year on weapons " , as this report on

the State of the World mentions (see the

January/February edition of New International

Magazine for more on this).

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To satisfy all the world's sanitation and food

requirements would cost only $13 billion, hardly as

much as the people of the United States and the

European Union spend each year on perfume.

— Ignacio Ramonet, The Politics of Hunger, Le Monde

Diplomatique, November 1998 (see the article for many

more statistics).

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Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the

20% of the world's people in the highest-income

countries account for 86% of total private consumption

expenditures - the poorest 20% a minuscule 1.3%. More

specifically, the richest fifth:

* Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth

5%.

* Consume 58% of total energy, the poorest fifth less

than 4%.

* Have 74% of all telephone lines, the poorest fifth

1.5%.

* Consume 84% of all paper, the poorest fifth 1.1%.

* Own 87% of the world's vehicle fleet, the poorest

fifth less than 1%.

 

Political causes of poverty are very much related to

political issues and roots of consumerism.

How entire cultural habits had to be transformed for

this consumption is introduced here.

 

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“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs

but not for everyone's greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

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