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In order to understand the dimensions of investments made to prepare for and pursue military conflicts it may be mentioned that about seven percent of the annual global budget for military expenses would be sufficient to solve the forthcoming global water crisis, which affects already today about half of Earth’s population and lets a child die every eight seconds somewhere on this planet.
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Genske, D.D. (2003). The Impact of Warfare. In: Urban Land. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05326-3_5
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