Conflict
The economic, environmental, and human price of this conflict is extremely high.
World military spending is nearly $800 billion annually – more than 25 times the cost of providing primary education, basic health care, nutrition, clean water, and sanitation worldwide.
Preparing for, financing, and fighting wars has destabilized local and regional economies, devastated ecosystems and habitats, and polluted water and soil with radioactive and other toxic materials
More than five million civilians have died in conflicts during the past decade, and many times that number have been driven from their homes.
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