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		<title>By: funpartyideas.info &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Are Both Political Parties Science Skeptics? » Sociological Images</title>
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		<dc:creator>funpartyideas.info &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Are Both Political Parties Science Skeptics? » Sociological Images</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Perspective on Spending Billions [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Tweets that mention Perspective on Spending Billions » Sociological Images -- Topsy.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tweets that mention Perspective on Spending Billions » Sociological Images -- Topsy.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Osocio, allisonkilkenny, SocImages, kris_burns, Elles and others. Elles said: How money could be spent. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/02/06/perspective-on-spending/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Osocio, allisonkilkenny, SocImages, kris_burns, Elles and others. Elles said: How money could be spent. <a href="http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/02/06/perspective-on-spending/" rel="nofollow">http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/02/06/perspective-on-spending/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Stentor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stentor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This reminds me of Neil Sinhababu&#039;s entertaining &lt;a href=&quot;http://warorcar.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;War or Car?&quot; blog&lt;/a&gt;, where he compiled lists of ridiculous things that you could do with the money spent on the Iraq war.

I also found it a bit jarring to see &quot;Save the Amazon&quot; on there. I tracked down their source, which is the size of the Amazon preservation fund that the Brazilian government hopes to create with international donations. Presenting a dollar amount that will &quot;save the Amazon&quot; seems to play into an idea that rainforest preservation is something that you can just buy -- but in practice that often translates into taking land away from indigenous people. I realize every number in these charts is an oversimplification and I just fixated on that one because of my political ecology background, but it does seem to sideline questions of structural change in the political-economic system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This reminds me of Neil Sinhababu&#8217;s entertaining <a href="http://warorcar.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">&#8220;War or Car?&#8221; blog</a>, where he compiled lists of ridiculous things that you could do with the money spent on the Iraq war.</p>
<p>I also found it a bit jarring to see &#8220;Save the Amazon&#8221; on there. I tracked down their source, which is the size of the Amazon preservation fund that the Brazilian government hopes to create with international donations. Presenting a dollar amount that will &#8220;save the Amazon&#8221; seems to play into an idea that rainforest preservation is something that you can just buy &#8212; but in practice that often translates into taking land away from indigenous people. I realize every number in these charts is an oversimplification and I just fixated on that one because of my political ecology background, but it does seem to sideline questions of structural change in the political-economic system.</p>
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		<title>By: Kristyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kristyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This kind of thing makes me feel so ill about how we prioritise spending.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This kind of thing makes me feel so ill about how we prioritise spending.</p>
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