This would make the top of Hugg, digg or Grist if someone did the "carbon foot" of the war... However, the majority of us do not like to think about "the daily cost of war" . It is a sobering as a kick in the chest. While it is easy for any "arm chair patriot" to fly a flag in their yard or his neighbor to say "war is wrong" while burning a flag. It takes bravery, courage, love and compassion to blindly defend the freedom that lets those same people sleep safely at night.
For the "best and brightest" who scarify all for my freedom - Thank you. For "arm chair patriots" who need numbers to "quantify" that war is hell, see below....
Food or Fuel? A calculation made by Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobel prize winning economist concludes that One minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000.
United Nations World Food Program costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day. Nineteen cents. 20,000 children die of hunger every day. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died.
Taking those two figures together, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day.
One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year.
There are 800 million hungry in the world. Three-four months of war in Iraq would feed all hungry in the world.
Photo credit: Robert Kasca. Picture taken after the bombing of the UN building in Baghdad.
Source: theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com
