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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smoking that obama kumbaya brand again!!
only jerkwads that live in big city apartment buildings come up with this nonsense!!
But recall that the “collapse” of the Soviet Union was only a reorganization. We won’t be so lucky.
And if we don’t “collapse” or “merge”, they will launch their nukes at us and follow up with an invasion. In fact had Trump remained President we would have likely faced nuclear attack by this point.
Orlov’s discussion of the Soviet Union is quite terrifying in its details.
Just two examples:
—Factories stopped paying workers except in goods, so the workers had to get a second gig trading those goods on the black market to get essentials.
—Street murders were almost nonexistent under the old Soviet Union. They became commonplace post collapse.
If They Take Climate Change Seriously, the U.S. Military Needs to See a Shrink
What they really want.
Orlov argues that the Soviets have zero interest in “invading” the United States any more than they want to “invade” Nigeria.
They view both of us as dysfunctional societies, the butt of jokes, and want nothing to do with our toxic cultures.
Their main concern is that a collapsed US might generate a lot of nuclear waste that could be bad for the environment around the world.
There. Fixed it.
Oh of course, because there’s no global threat in Eastern
Europe or the Western Pacific regions. /s
Then we can do away with the border patrol, right?
Heck, we need no police officers nationwide. Just think of
how the jails and prisons will empty out.
We wouldn’t need judges either.
On the brighter side, all these people could find work in
the all new Block Captain services.
Every move you make would be watched and recorded for the
proper authorities to review.
This is what some term ‘building back better’.
“Climate change” is just another NWO panic tactic.
Decarbonizing, denuclearizing, demilitarizing - becoming more in touch with their genitalia and feelings, and prioritizing racial quotas over anything else (except of course, whichever way the current winds of political correctness might be blowing).
Let’s GO, GO, GO Brandon!
ping
I recommend looking at Jeff Nyquist’s works, as well asvthise from Anatoly Golitsyn.
No. If we really want to maintain superiority, we will probably need more icebreakers.
Latest video January 22 2022 from China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXX6knfBzsE
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