Posted on 02/18/2022 8:03:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
… Military vehicles, along with the forces that use them and the industries that supply them, represent a huge climate problem, accounting for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions every year. And there’s no bigger actor in that space than the U.S. military, which sucks up more petroleum than any other institution on earth to fly jets, heat buildings, and ferry food and supplies to 750 bases spread across the world.
That might be changing, though. The Department of Defense (DOD) has embarked on a decarbonization push in recent months, claiming to be in the process of building a greener American fighting force. But many environmentalists and academics say that fully decarbonizing the country’s current military and its vast network of overseas bases simply isn’t realistic. Carbon cuts, they argue, will come with trade-offs, and at some point we will have to make a difficult choice to scale down our armed forces to avert ecological catastrophe.
Doug Weir, research and policy director at the U.K.-based Conflict and Environmental Observatory, says the military will have to bite the bullet eventually and start reducing fuel use in ways that don’t necessarily have strategic upsides. “There’s going to have to be a point where they [make] emissions cuts because there’s a climate emergency which is going to destabilize the planet and human civilization,” he says.
Some researchers say that emissions implications of conflict need to be a bigger consideration as the U.S. chooses how to meet those threats. But as climate change ratchets up tensions around the world, some worry that nations will further militarize in response, creating a vicious cycle of military emissions. “You can’t win a climate change war,” says Nick Buxton, a researcher at the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute.
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There it is, the end goal! Weaken and compromise the US security.
Mask has slipped!
I agree. Fire everyone in the Pentagon and make it into condos.
Or we could surrender to china. No need for a military, and no one ever complains about their ecological record. That would be racist, anyway.
More treason.
I imagine that probably half the Pentagon budget is wasted - deep state MIC corruption, political and woke BS, inefficiency, bloated bureaucracy.
But, you can’t change Washington DC, so what you gonna do?
When do we invade the Sun? Or, if their bunk is believed, China?
It’s as if the CCP were dictating US military policy to Brandon.
The US is turning into a third rate power.
“Climate change” will just give the politicians cover.
Don’t worry, one nuke will offset everything.
And we need to give up our nuclear weapons, to “promote world peace and environmentalism” Meanwhile Putin and Xi build up their forces. We also have to absorb a first nuclear strike before launching back. How idiotic is that?
Complete idiots.
Obviously the Dems want to shrink the military. They also want to give up all of our nukes.
This comes from a UK based peace nic, eco geek.
Not based in reality.
Yes, that’s the answer, remove all the jets. What took them so long.
Dmitry Orlov (author of “The Five Stages of Collapse”) has some fascinating writings comparing the current US with the old Soviet Union.
In this interview he argues that while the US elites are paranoid about Russia, the Soviet Union considers the US a decaying empire that will collapse on its own:
https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-348-revisiting-reinventing-collapse-with-dmitry-orlov/
Nothing humans do can change the climate by a degree or raise/lower the sea levels an inch.
If every human disappeared tomorrow, the Earth would continue in its slightly irregular orbit of the Sun, with its little wobble, as it has since God set it spinning. Winter, spring, summer and fall would progress as always. Natural cycles would continue; global temperatures would change periodically, glaciers would advance and retreat, ocean levels would rise and fall, deserts would become savannahs and savannahs would become forests or wetlands. Some forests and wetlands would revert to desert. Over eons of time tectonic forces would push up mountains and volcanoes would erupt, and over more eons they would be worn down by wind and rain.
This would continue until the day of the Lord’s choosing.
The main difference is that there would be no liberals around to lie about it.
Funny about that. Is is almost as if China's declared strategy of "capturing ruling elites" is working as planned.
Let’s really roll back Government. . . .prohibit Air Conditioning in Federal Offices....
Imagine the asbestos in the pentagon. N
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