{"id":439,"date":"2008-12-15T01:49:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/15\/the-cost-of-consumer-society\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T01:49:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T06:49:27","slug":"the-cost-of-consumer-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/the-cost-of-consumer-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Consumer Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cost of ten years of basic education for all the world\u2019s children:&nbsp; $6 billion<\/p>\n<p>Amount spent on cosmetics each year (US only):&nbsp; $8 billion<\/p>\n<p>Cost to provide clean water for everyone in the world:&nbsp; $9 billion<\/p>\n<p>Amount spent on perfumes each year (US &amp; Europe only):&nbsp; $12 billion<\/p>\n<p>Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world:&nbsp; $13 billion<\/p>\n<p>Amount spent each year on pet food (US &amp; Europe only):&nbsp; $17 billion<\/p>\n<p>Total amount the US spends on Christmas each year:&nbsp; $450 billion<\/p>\n<p>Cost of Iraq War to US (as of Dec 15 2008): $580 billion<\/p>\n<p>Initial cost of the US Government bailout of failing financial institutions:&nbsp; $700 billion<\/p>\n<p>Resetting our priorities:&nbsp; PRICELESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost of ten years of basic education for all the world\u2019s children:&nbsp; $6 billion Amount spent on cosmetics each year (US only):&nbsp; $8 billion Cost to provide clean water for everyone in the world:&nbsp; $9 billion Amount spent on perfumes each year (US &amp; Europe only):&nbsp; $12 billion Cost per year to achieve basic health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}