100 Billion $ for WAR on Iraq- Some facts about

world- Some questions to President George Bush

Presentation by
Prof.K.Prabhakar
kprksr@gmail.com
Context: War on Iraq
 War on Iraq is costing world both in
economic terms and human life.
 President George Bush is presiding over
United States of America when 17% of
them are able to get less than 2$ a day and
tries to convince people that war on
terrorism is more important. Some facts for
all of us and questions to find answers.
 Reference: www.prb.org
Population Scenario: Present
Population and Future
Projections
The World’s 10 Largest
Countries in Population
 2006 Population  2050 Population
Country (millions) Country (millions)
2. China 1,311 2. India 1,628
3. India 1,122 3. China 1,437
4. United States 299 4. United States 420
5. Indonesia 225 5. Nigeria 299
6. Brazil 187 6. Pakistan 295
7. Pakistan 166 7. Indonesia 285
8. Bangladesh 147 8. Brazil 260
9. Russia 142 9. Bangladesh 231
10. Nigeria 135 10. Dem. Rep. of Congo 183
11. Japan 128 11. Ethiopia 145
Some questions
 Is it possible to sustain the present growth rates in
the world to feed the likely population in 2050?
 If so, how much bio mass is required and how we are
going to generate it?
 100$ will help us to reverse trends in most of the
countries to come out of poverty, illiteracy, sanitation
issues and illegal immigration. (Please prepare what
we make a difference in the world with 100 billion $).
 President George Bush wants us to believe that
creating misery for Iraqi’s and for Americans and for
the world is more important than solving the world
problems.
 Biomass available for the world to
meet the demands and government’s
action.
Protected area
 Protected area as a percentage of a country’s
total surface area is an indicator for the UN
Millennium Development Goals. Protected
areas contribute to environmental
sustainability in multiple ways by maintaining
biodiversity, safeguarding genetic resources,
preventing soils from eroding, and supporting
local livelihoods. They can provide valuable
social and economic benefits. However,
designation of protected areas alone is not
sufficient to ensure these benefits. Protected
areas must be carefully selected and managed
for conservation goals.
 How much money is required to do this work?
Countries With the
Highest Share of
Their Surface Area
Protected (2006)
 Country surface area
protected (In percentage)
 Venezuela 63
 China, Hong Kong SAR 51
 Zambia 42
 Liechtenstein 40
 Brunei 38
 Tanzania 38
 Saudi Arabia 37
 Dominican Republic 33
 Colombia 32
 Estonia 31
 Guatemala 31
 Belize 30
 Botswana 30
 Germany 30
 Switzerland 29
 We can see here some of the
smaller countries like Venezuela
is able to protect 63% of its
surface area. What do you think
is the reason for this?
 Some ideas to ponder
 Good Governance
 Less Globalization( As in the case
of Venezuela)
 Small countries can do it.
 Rich countries can do it (as in the
case of Brunei)
 Less spending on defense related
goods and services
 What are millennium goals of
United Nations?
Desire to cease childbearing
 In Countries, Most Married Women
Wish to Limit Childbearing to Two
Children. One very useful indicator of
women’s ability to limit their number of
children in turn leading to the prospect for
future fertility decline—is their desire to
cease childbearing. In Vietnam, 92 percent
of women who had two living children said
that they did not wish to have any more
children. In Nigeria, by contrast, that figure
was only 4 percent.
Early pregnancies
Gains in Life Expectancy Since the 1950s
Have Not Been Uniform.

 In the early 1950s, life expectancy in China,

Vietnam, Honduras, and Kenya was about 40
years—more than 30 years lower than in Sweden.
Over the past half-century, China, Vietnam, and
Honduras have each improved life expectancy by
about 30 years—although they have taken
different paths. For example, China experienced
dramatic health improvements in the 1960s, while
Vietnam’s improvements became more
pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s. As for Kenya,
the HIV/AIDS crisis of the last 25 years has
reversed much of the life expectancy gains of
earlier decades. Let us examine some graphs.
Life Expectancy
The Top 15 HIV/AIDS
Prevalence Countries (2005)
Questions
 We see in www.myspace.com mostly from advanced
countries and the data we see here regarding
developing and under developed countries , many
women expressed their view that they want no kids.
How do you foresee this particular tendency of not
having kids among women throughout the world is
going to affect us?
 Is it a positive trend? Or a negative trend?
 Is it because of the wrong policies of promoted by
vested interests that people feel that having children
is great economic burden?
Net Migration Rates
 International migrants make up about 3 percent of the
world’s population.
 Economic conditions, social and political tensions, and
historical traditions can influence a nation’s level of
migration.
 Net migration rates can mask offsetting trends (such as
immigration of unskilled workers along with emigration of
more-educated residents). Migration trends vary over time.
For example, the Netherlands recently experienced a net
outflow of people for the first time since the early 1980s.
 Is it desirable to have so much population to be on
continuous “transition”? Moving away from their cultures
and native traditions in search of so called “jobs”. The
“jobs” are crated by robbing from low paid Americans to
sweat shops in China, India and other countries to create
17% poor Americans and vulgarly rich in America.
Net Migration in Countries
In Many Parts of the World, Rural Populations
Still Lack Adequate Sanitation.

 Worldwide, only 58 percent of the

population has access to one of life’s
most fundamental needs: adequate
or improved sanitation facilities.
There are, however, wide regional
and rural/urban disparities. In
developing regions, only one-quarter
to one half of all rural residents have
access to improved sanitation.
Poor Sanitation and access to water
Poverty in the Developed World
 Almost everyone in the world’s more
developed countries lives well above the
 international poverty threshold of US$2 a
day ($730 annually). That does not mean,
however, that all persons in the
industrialized world are economically well
off.
 Indeed, in many industrialized countries,
more than one-tenth of residents have
incomes below 50 percent of their country’s
median household income.
Percentage of Poor Developed
World
Poorest of Poor
 The highest number of poor people
are in America and Russia.
 Is there any war on their poverty?
 Is there any war on their misery?
 Do we have answers?
Let us all think
 President George Bush’s vision is to create
safe world with 100billion $ of war effort for
one year is to create misery for innocent
Iraqis ,innocent Americans ,(who are in no
way connected with the terror) and to all
people of the world.
 Who is creating terror, misery, pollution,
immigration? Axis of Evil countries or EVIL
and GREED WITH MONEY?
 Is it right to blame George Bush alone for
all the ills?