Innumerate Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo: "The U.S. spends 60 billion dollars on its military marching bands"

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"Science says emissions need to peak in 2015," said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, as the final plenary of COP 18 concluded last Saturday night, a full day late.
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To help governments cope, industrialised nations promised to put 100 billion dollars a year into a Green Climate Fund by 2020. To bridge the gap until then, developing nations asked for 60 billion dollars in total by 2015.
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"The U.S. spends 60 billion dollars on its military marching bands," said Naidoo.

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"The only service that came up with a number was the Marines," he says. "And the Marines came back and told me factually that they spend $50 million on their bands. The Army couldn't give me a good figure and they finally estimated $198 million, but they pride themselves on being the biggest employer of musicians in the country — between four and five thousand of them."