Transcriber: Palmer Silva Reviewer: Hani Eldalees
COVID 19 has hurt our economy, politics,
morals and values and a completely unique way.
It has compelled us to innovate a new and exciting ways.
There have been many positive outcomes from the coronavirus.
However, if there’s one thing that we’ve
learned is that we spend far too much
money on nuclear warfare weapons and nearly not enough in health care.
The main reason the pandemic hit us so hard is because you see other nations
as being the major threat.
However, we see an increasing threat from viruses and bacteria as well.
The mismatch between what we spend on nuclear warfare and what we spent on
the military is stark.
In 2020, the year of the pandemic,
the world spent over two trillion dollars on its military.
That's a ridiculous and obscene amount of money.
Most of these bombs sit in silos and are kept in buildings
and never be used again. Did you know that
the US spends more in its military budget annually than NASA's spent over
the past 60 years? The US spends close to one trillion dollars
on its military per year. Allow me to elaborate how much one trillion dollars
really is. So if you counted one number per second,
it would take you 12 days to reach one million.
Thirty two years to reach one billion.
In other words, if you start counting from 1989,
you'd reach one billion today.
However, it would take you
a whopping 32,000 years to count to one trillion.
Imagine if we spent one trillion dollars on alleviating poverty.
Thirty percent of the people from my country are enslaved in
the hands of poverty, especially after 2018 when
the Egyptian government started to increase military spending by nearly 200%
Therefore, results are resulting in
the weekly elderly income to fall below ten dollars a week.
Who knows what happened to the less fortunate families across the land of
the Pharaohs? I believe the pandemic was one event that really helped open
the human race is eyes on what should be prioritized for our species.
What the human race needs to unlearn is the ridiculous amount of money we spent
on weapons and must relearn spend that on health care,
education and uplifting people out of poverty.
The real threat in 2020 was from a virus.
How much do we spend on health care last year?
we should be developing hospitals and field clinics in a war footing,
we should be investing in health companies
and providing mass health insurance.
2020 have taught us that life full of uncertainties and is highly unpredictable,
so spending trillions of dollars on weapons we could have in providing health
care to countries that suffer the huge number of Covid cases.
Those trillion dollars could have saved our fellow human beings, however,
they were used on weapons designed to kill us.
We've got to be spending far more on science,
technology and space exploration.
By doing so, we could help reduce pollution, fight climate change,
uplift people out of poverty and expand human consciousness across the rest of
the solar system. By exploring space,
we could be closer than ever to stepping on Mars and send the human life there,
potentially find other life beyond Earth due to
an increase in exponential technology.
There are millions of young entrepreneurs with big dreams
and incredible solutions to solve of the global grand challenges.
Let us support these thinkers and invest in their ideas.
I, myself, an entrepreneur, would love to invest in areas such as medicine,
space exploration and nanotechnology.
Overall, I believe by spending less than
the military would mean far greater progress in areas such as medicine
as well as technology. Let us invest in these areas of human endeavor rather
than bombs and fighter jets.
Instead of an arms race, the world's superpowers,
the invites in an innovation race and compete to make the world
a healthier and happier place for the rest of mankind.