Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
I don’t think these numbers quite add up. It says $93B a year, vs $21.9T over a decade. So that’s $2.19 per year, or a a bit over 20 times as much. So fixing hunger costs slightly less than 5% of the world’s military budget.
Still a more worthy way to spend that money, but let’s get the numbers correct.
Yeah but without world hunger there’d be less justification for military spending. Lockheed needs its milkies, mommy
-Lockheed Martin, lobbying Congress to build the more expensive but technically less capable F35, probably
The global military spending is increasing every year, so it wasn’t $2.19T every year. In 2024 it was $2.7T. $93B amounts to about 3.4% of that. Not perfect, but fairly close.
Well, glad you did the maths. That’s much more affordable.
Well shit I got it this year guys, no worries
I got tree fiddy to donate