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Amount of paper losses in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, exposed in 2008, the largest in history, including $20 billion of cash losses.[15] By 2010, clawback lawsuits against those who had profited from the Ponzi scheme had recovered $10 billion, thus allowing cash loss victims to be compensated at 50 cents on the dollar[16]
total cost of the Iraq War as calculated in 2013 by the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University[33]
$2.2×1012
Cost of a mission to Alpha Centauri as proposed in 1968 by physicist Freeman J. Dyson—a space ark would be built using an Orion nuclear pulse propulsion rocket powered by hydrogen bombs. The rocket would have a payload of 50,000 tonnes and be able to travel at 3.3% of the speed of light and reach Alpha Centauri in 133 years. The rocket ship would have a crew of 250.[34]
$4.49×1012
United States annual federal budget expenditures as of 2018[35]
$6×1012
Investment company BlackRock's assets under management as of October 2017
$7.33×1012
All of the gold mined in human history (2013 prices)[36]
Total wealth of all 10.9 million rich people (defined as those with $1 million or more of investable assets) in the world as of 2010.[39] Thus, the rich, 0.15% of the world's population of 7 billion, control 30.5% of all world financial assets of $140 trillion.
$53.5 ×1012
Total of all private household net worth in the United States as of September 2009[40]
$62×1012
Value of all real estate in developed countries (includes $48 trillion residential real estate and $14 trillion commercial real estate) as of 2002[41]
^TIME magazine "Briefing" September 10, 2012 Page 7
^Rankin, Bill (2006). "Land Value". Radical Cartography. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
^"United States". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
^Hanson, Elizabeth (January 2000). The Rockefeller University Achievements: A Century of Science for the Benefit of Humankind, 1901–2001. The Rockefeller University Press. ISBN9780874700312.
^Robert Costanza; Rudolf de Groot; Paul Sutton; Sander van der Ploegb; Sharolyn J. Anderson; Ida Kubiszewski; Stephen Farber; R. Kerry Turner (2014). "Changes in the global value of ecosystem services". Global Environmental Change. Elsevier BV. 26: 152–158. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.002. ISSN0959-3780.
Global loss of ecosystem services due to land use change is $US 4.3–20.2 trillion/yr.
Ecoservices contribute more than twice as much to human well-being as global GDP.
Estimates in monetary units are useful to show the relative magnitude of ecoservices.
Valuation of ecosystem services is not the same as commodification or privatization.
Ecosystem services are best considered public goods requiring new institutions.