Posted on 05/28/2021 10:01:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
From the dumping of defoliants like Agent Orange on forests in Vietnam to oil wells set ablaze during the Gulf War and the contamination of the aquifers bombed in Gaza, environmental destruction has long been a byproduct of conflict.
Less talked about is the impact of war and the military on the climate crisis. This is partly because military emissions have been largely exempted from international climate treaties, starting with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
“The US military did not want to limit its supremacy by being constrained,” explained Neta C. Crawford, professor of political science at Boston University and co-director of the Costs of War project. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, the military feared that emission constraints might sacrifice its newfound “global hegemony.”
Yet if the US military was a nation, it would be one of the top 50 largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, putting it above Sweden or Denmark, says Crawford in her paper on “Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War.”
Her research is one of a growing body of work that has recently revealed the outsized carbon emissions of the global military system. […]
One solution will be “to shut down the military machine in a way, to slow it down and shrink it,” said Benjamin Neimark, senior lecturer at the Lancaster University Environment Center — including shutting some of the 800 US military bases maintained in over 70 countries. …
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Ever notice that these morons expect other morons to believe this drivel. VC in the jungle are not blame. Iraqis are not to blame. Hamas is not to blame. No, the US military is the bad guy.
Riiiiiight ... end conflict by [checks notes] compelling strangers to behave differently, under threat of violence.
“to oil wells set ablaze during the Gulf War”
Aren’t the fires set in the first Gulf War supposed to still be burning? We get told a lot of BS; it’s hard to keep track.
The amount of ordnance expended and oil burned and spilled from sinking ships in WWII dwarfs all the recent conflicts combined and the planet survived just fine.
So called fossil fuels break down into fertilizer in the ocean, and on land it is just a nuisance and takes land out of usage for a few years. Oil is a natural substance on the Earth and on many other planets. No dinosaurs or plant life, yet they still have hydrocarbons.
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