New World (Dis)Order Match Game - Answers

Sources: UNDP; UNESCO; US State Dept.; Worldwatch; Planet Ark ; NYTimes; Environmental Science (Miller)

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(7) $30 billion USA spends on toys per year / 60% USA toys made in Chinese sweatshops

(3) 500 $ billion spent on advertising globally / 120% world consumption relative to amount available ecologically

(10) 9 cents paid worker in Dominican Republic to make sports cap / $19.95 retail cost of sports cap in USA

(1) $17.5 million annual salary of Walmart CEO / 18 cents per hour paid worker in overseas factory making Walmart goods

(9) 4.7% of world's population living in USA / 31.5% of world's consumption by USA

(12) 6000 is the number of world languages / 50% likely to disappear in next 100 years

(2) $300 billion per year paid by poor countries as interest on international debt / $55 billion given in aid by rich nations to poor nations

(11) $2.5 billion sent home by Salvadoran workers in US (people are top Salvadoran export) / 300% decline in coffee exports in El Salvador due to global market glut

(5) 75 % of world's people with access to television / .75 televisions per person in USA

(6) $19 billion annually would end world hunger / $15.7 billion in subsidies annually to US farmers

(8) 20 Invasive species arrive in Hawaii per year / .000015 is the historic average (pre-globalization) of invasive species per year

(4) 43 billion of people worldwide working in Export Processing Zones (areas set aside for foreign industries) / 60 is the number of container ships arriving at US docks each year