£8
Today, I did not carry the world on my shoulders. Instead, I carried it in a bag. The world cost me just £8. I thought it was a bargain but I suppose in buying the world I have also purchased all of its troubles. From desertification to starvation and from exploitation to deforestation. Yes - now I come to think of it, maybe it wasn't such a bargain after all. To clarify for Ellen D and Mary M and Bruce T and David and James and Bob and Jennifer in South Carolina and all the other Yankee-Doodle-Dandies who call by this humble green blog, £8 is the equivalent of $11 US. For Marcellous, Andrew, Elsie and Kylie on that big southern island that is apparently not an island, £8 is the equivalent of $15.3 AUS. For Young Meike in continental Europe, £8 is the equivalent of 9.18 euros. For Lovely Monica in Sweden, £8 is about the same as 98 krona. For Canadian visitors like Arctic Monkey Red, Nurse Pixie, Debra ("She Who Squeaks") and Jenny in Nova Scotia, £8 is like $14.8 ...