Humankind’s Price of Fear and what can be done if we reduced it just by 25%

Each square on the chart represents one billion U.S. dollars.

There are one thousand squares. That equals one trillion dollars that was the annual military budget of all the countries on this world in 1993.

Superimposed on these one thousand squares is a small area – approx 25% in size. This area is made up of thirteen approximate rectangles of varying sizes, each representing the amount of money and time to solve a problem that humankind faces.

Once you see problems in this perspective you immediately understand that the money that the few billions of dollars that are being asked for are negligible in comparison to what we spend for our collective fear, which, paradoxically increases the more we spend in search of a security we have yet to clearly define and understand.

If asked by a child, how would you explain our failure to act on this information?