
Environmentalists should argue for going beyond simply 'greening' military infrastructure
Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries. If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal.
In 2017, the US military bought about 269,230 barrels of oil a day and emitted more than 25,000 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide by burning those fuels. The US Air Force purchased US$4.9 billion worth of fuel, and the navy US$2.8 billion, followed by the army at US$947m and the Marines at US$36m.
















Comment: For all the hysteria about Trump being a dictator, it Big Tech who are the intolerant totalitarians. Watch out, though, because saying so might be considered "hateful".
- Google censors video exposing Google
- O'Keefe says more Big-Tech insiders about to blow the whistle
- Project Veritas expose: Google whistleblower exposes efforts to influence 2020 election against Trump - UPDATE
- Leaked Google doc describes Shapiro, Jordan Peterson as 'nazis using dogwhistles'
Vimeo is no better than YouTube. They'll censor anything critical of Israel, for example.