Nighthawk117 said:
Does the WMO own any weather satellites? Hard to predict the weather and track hurricanes if you don't have any weather satellites at your disposal. Look, I'll admit the WHO is a much more beneficial agency than the WMO, but still there's no need for the USA to be the biggest donor. |
14% of it is payed by the US, which is granted the most of any nation.
However factor in the size of economies of a nation like the US being so big.... again it makes sense they contribute more than smaller nations.
USA: GDP: $21.44 trillion ~14%
UK: GDP: $2.83 trillion ~8%
Germany: GDP: $3.86 trillion ~6%
Other nations do their parts too.
So yes, USA should be the biggest donor.
It has a higher population, and economy than most other places of the world. Also likely benefits more from WHO than alot of other countries.
In the end, the money spent on the WHO goes into stuff like Medicine/vaccine/Prevention & controll outbreaks/Survalance and early warning/... and a whole mess of other things.
Lets pretend the US stops paying their part.... and as a result, the outbreak controll becomes so bad, another virus breaks out into a pandemic.
The "saved" moeny the US saved, could be lost due to another virus outbreak.
Ontop of this, think how many lives this saves.... the Money the USA gives to the WHO is saveing lives, across the world (and protecting themselves).
Alot of it goes to the middle-east and Africa, but they need help those places.
Pull funding, and people will die as a result.
Trump action (if followed though) will likely cost human lives.
