“We Must Do Our Part to Mitigate Climate Change”—The Military’s Pollution Problem

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“We Must Do Our Part to Mitigate Climate Change”—The Military’s Pollution Problem
January 6, 2022| Sonner Kehrt

In the fall of 2018, Neta C. Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, prepared to teach a class on climate change designed to help students think about the issue in a big-picture way. Crawford’s research expertise is in war, so she wanted to include a statistic on the military’s contribution to greenhouse gases.

“I thought, ‘Well, maybe I should just tell them what the emissions are for the U.S. military,’” Crawford says. “It was meant to be a line on a slide in a lecture.”

But when she went to look up the figure, she couldn’t find anything reliable. Instead, she found scattered and incomplete data on how much fuel the military consumed and how much carbon it emitted. The information that did exist largely didn’t include overseas operations, even though the United States had been at war for nearly two decades. Major categories of fuel consumption, like much of the fuel used for aviation, seemed to be missing.

https://thewarhorse.org/us-military-has-a-pollution-problem-but-no-accountability/

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Destroyers will soon get their power from sails, aircraft will be banned except in time of war and China will tell Milley when we are in a war, attacking American vehicles will be banned when they have run out of electricity, whale oil lamps will replace lights, and ID cards will measure the amount of water each person uses doing "private" business, and cow pies will be used for heat.