New World (Dis)Order Match Game  

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

Test your knowledge of key facts related to living in the globalized world! Fun for the whole family!!

Use the numbers to fill in the answers.

1) 17.5/18
2) 300/55
3) 500/120
4) 43/60
5) 75/.75
6) 19/15.7
7) 30/60
8) 20/.000015
9) 4.7/31.5
10) 9/1995
11) 2.5 / 300
12) 6000 / 50

__$ billion USA spends on toys per year / % USA toys made in Chinese sweatshops

__$ billion spent on advertising globally / % world consumption relative to amount available ecologically

__cents paid worker in Dominican Republic to make sports cap / retail cost of sports cap in USA

__$ million annual salary of Walmart CEO / cents per hour paid worker in overseas factory making Walmart goods

__% of world's population living in USA / % of world's consumption by USA

__#of world languages / % likely to disappear in next 100 years

__$ billion per year paid by poor countries as interest on international debt / $ billion given in aid by rich nations to poor nations

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

__% of world's people with access to television / # of televisions per person in USA

__$ billion annually would end world hunger / $ billion in subsidies annually to US farmers

__Invasive species that arrive in Hawaii per year / historic average (pre-globalization) of invasive species per year

__ billions of people worldwide working in Export Processing Zones (areas set aside for foreign industries) / # of container ships arriving at US docks each year

click here for the answers