'Zinyalala Zazikulu': Opambana Mphotho ya Nobel Ayitanitsa 2% Kuchepetsa Kugwiritsa Ntchito Zankhondo Padziko Lonse

Wolemba Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, December 14, 2021

Oposa 50 omwe adalandira mphotho ya Nobel asayina kalata yopempha mayiko onse kuti achepetse ndalama zomwe akugwiritsa ntchito pankhondo ndi 2% pachaka kwa zaka zisanu zikubwerazi, ndikuyika theka la ndalama zomwe zasungidwa mu thumba la UN lothana ndi miliri, zovuta zanyengo, komanso kuipitsitsa. umphawi.

Yoyendetsedwa ndi wasayansi waku Italy Carlo rovelli, kalatayo imathandizidwa ndi gulu lalikulu la asayansi ndi masamu kuphatikizapo Sir Roger Penrose, ndipo limafalitsidwa panthaŵi imene kukwera kwa mikangano yapadziko lonse kwadzetsa kuwonjezereka kosalekeza kwa bajeti ya zida zankhondo.

"Maboma aliyense akukakamizidwa kuti awonjezere ndalama zankhondo chifukwa ena amatero," osayinawo akutero pothandizira zomwe zangokhazikitsidwa kumene. Kampeni ya Peace Dividend. "Njira zofotokozera zimathandizira kuthamanga kwa zida zankhondo - kuwononga kwambiri zinthu zomwe zingagwiritsidwe ntchito mwanzeru kwambiri."

Gulu lodziwika bwino lati dongosololi ndi "lingaliro losavuta, lokhazikika kwa anthu", ngakhale palibe chiyembekezo choti kuchepetsa ndalama zankhondo kudzakhazikitsidwa ndi maboma akulu kapena apakatikati, kapena kuti ndalama zilizonse zomwe zapulumutsidwa zitha kuperekedwa. ku UN ndi mabungwe ake.

Ndalama zonse zankhondo zidakwana $1,981bn (£1,496bn) chaka chatha, chiwonjezeko cha 2.6% malinga ndi Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Omwe adagwiritsa ntchito ndalama zambiri anali US ($ 778bn), China ($252bn), India ($72.9bn), Russia ($61.7bn) ndi UK ($59.2bn) - onse omwe adawonjezera bajeti zawo mu 2020.

Kukula mikangano pakati pa Russia ndi kumadzulo pamikhalidwe monga Ukraine ndi pakati China ndi US ndi ogwirizana nawo aku Pacific ku Taiwan zathandizira kukwera kwa ndalama, pomwe m'zaka zaposachedwa mapangano ena osachulukirachulukira monga mgwirizano wa INF, womwe udaletsa zida zanyukiliya ku Europe, amaloledwa kugwa.

Osaina kalatayo akutsutsa kuti mpikisano wa zida ungayambitse “mikangano yakupha ndi yowononga” ndi kuwonjezera kuti: “Tili ndi lingaliro losavuta kwa anthu: maboma a mayiko onse omwe ali mamembala a UN amakambirana kuti achepetse ndalama zomwe amawononga pankhondo ndi 2% pachaka zaka zisanu.”

Othandizira ena a kalatayo akuphatikizapo mtsogoleri wauzimu wa ku Tibet a Dalai Llama, yemwe adapambana mphoto yamtendere ya Nobel, komanso katswiri wa sayansi ya zamoyo ndi pulofesa wa yunivesite ya Cambridge Sir Venki Ramakrishnan ndi katswiri wa sayansi ya zamoyo zaku America Carol Greider.

Apempha atsogoleri andale padziko lonse lapansi kuti alole "theka lazinthu zomwe zatulutsidwa ndi mgwirizanowu" kuti ziperekedwe ku "thumba lapadziko lonse lapansi, moyang'aniridwa ndi UN, kuthana ndi mavuto omwe anthu amakumana nawo: miliri, kusintha kwa nyengo, ndi umphawi wadzaoneni". Ndalama zotere, akuti, zitha kufika $1tn pofika 2030.