The True Cost of War — Transcript

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1. 0:00How much do wars really cost? Weapons,
2. 0:03tanks, and planes alone cost the world
3. 0:05almost $3 trillion a year. But
4. 0:08rebuilding everything they destroyed
5. 0:09[music] adds hundreds of billions more
6. 0:11to the bill. And costs can stack up long
7. 0:14after the bombs stop [music] falling.
8. 0:16War destroys the land itself. When
9. 0:19fields are filled with landmines that
10. 0:20cost [music] up to $1,000 each to
11. 0:22remove, or drone fiber optic cables,
12. 0:24they're left unfarmable. Businesses go
13. 0:27bankrupt and investors flee. [music]
14. 0:29Meanwhile, government responses trigger
15. 0:31inflation that eats up civilian savings.
16. 0:3310 years after a conflict starts,
17. 0:35countries and [music] their people end
18. 0:37up on average 12% poorer. But some of
19. 0:39the greatest costs are carried by the
20. 0:41younger generations who make up around
21. 0:4340% of war refugees. Those who stay fall
22. 0:47years behind as schools [music] are
23. 0:48destroyed. Those who can leave, and this
24. 0:51brain drain can make countries billions
25. 0:53of dollars poorer. But the costs of war
26. 0:55aren't just financial. War makes anxiety
27. 0:57[music] and depression around three
28. 0:58times more likely. Trauma is literally
29. 1:00passed on to kids in their DNA. And
30. 1:03worse, countries that go to war once are
31. 1:05more likely [music] to go to war again.
32. 1:07So, war doesn't just destroy the
33. 1:08present, it also kills the future.