Posted on 04/30/2022 2:55:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
And while a trillion — which is one thousand billion — seems like a crazy fantasy level of money, it isn’t all that much in the grand scheme of things. A trillion dollars represents about 1% of the world’s GDP, an amount that one man — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — will likely be worth one day soon.
In his new book “How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix” (The Experiment), out now, author Rowan Hooper lays out a plan to start writing checks in order to solve the planet’s biggest problems.
“If you spent the money very wisely, you could genuinely change the world,” Hooper, a senior editor at New Scientist, told The Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
well if we can seize all of the Russian assets in the US aligned countries, we can just take whatever we want from anyone we want.
I am not sure how this will all play out, but I can only guess badly
How bout a quadrillion?
It could be saved for a LOT less than that. We don’t have a money problem, we have a behavior problem, particularly in the inner cities. How many dead in Chicago this weekend.
Yes, but you are blaming the wrong people. If we have laws that incentivize behavior, we should not be surprised to get it.
A good start would be to rid the world of the meglomaniacs trying to control the world.
“A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money!”
Synopsis of the article: Pie meets sky.
All extremely inflationary or useless ideas. The biggest chunk, of course, goes to transfer wealth to african blacks.
Save a trillion? Sure, term limits and once you serve you cannot become a lobbyist. Everything will fall into place.
Just compost Prog liberal Democrats.
True dat. All the FED needs is a phone call, and they'll provide it within the hour.
And we’ve overspent it 30 times already.
One of the keys of Gnostisism, that man can fix the world without GOD.
He can’t even fix his hair.
10% for the big guy.
Bull excrement. Western nations have goven trillions to s holes and they are still s holes. S hole people like s holes. Stop trying to help them and let them live as they want.
Whiten the clouds: $1 billionI do like the idea of making Mosquitoes extinct . Do I even need to comment in the rest?Farm insects: $10 billion
Incentivize building electric vehicles: $5 billion
Eradicate mosquitoes: $100 billion
Buy up biodiverse land: $500 billion
Just give it away: $600 billion
Create a green recipe competition: $10 million
Identify every species: $10 billion.
Notice how it adds up to more than a Trillion?
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