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"$20 billion by 2020" The Pentagon will spend 150 times this by 2020. It sounds like they're taking this climate change very seriously...
by odzhan 11y ago
"$20 billion by 2020"
The Pentagon will spend 150 times this by 2020.
It sounds like they're taking this climate change very seriously...
- alttab 11y agoIf you're comparing them to the Pentagon then I'd say them entering the arena in earnest compared to their individual contributions is rather significant. And you have some smart people involved. If they want to "waste" their own money trying to save the planet god bless them.
- c0nducktr 11y agoDid you not read the article before commenting? > According to the Washington Post, the 19 countries that have already joined Mission Innovation will increase their annual spending on clean-energy research and development to $20 billion by 2020. I believe odzhan was trying to show that 20 billion dollars between 19 countries still isn't that significant when compared to other budgets.
- alttab 11y agoBetter just be thankless masses then, nevermind.
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- joshkpeterson 11y agoPeople are downvoting because this comes off as a derail, but actually this is a really important criticism of the US government to make. Even if you assume the purpose of DOD spending is National Security (a term abused so often, saying it makes me cringe), well ok. Climate change is a huge threat to national security. Congress needs to reallocate some funds, and it's really unfortunate that discussing the reduction of defense spending is so taboo in the mainstream.
- ztratar 11y agoSource on the $3 trillion Pentagon budget?
- dewiz 11y agojust googling and found this, there are some tables in the document with pretty big numbers http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2016/FY2016_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudge...
- smt88 11y agoThe US is budgeted to spend $637 billion on the military in 2015. If the same is true for 2016-2019, the US will have spent $2.5 trillion. If you include 2020, then it's more than $3 trillion. Source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?granuleId=BUDGET-2015-TAB-5-1&packageId=BUDGET-2015-TAB&fromBrowse=true http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?granuleId... (Or you could just Google it...)
- dirtyaura 11y agoUS military budget is approx. 600B dollars per year. Multiply by 5 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_militar...
- smt88 11y agoRepublicans control Congress, and Congress controls the spending of the US. No matter how much Obama wanted to increase spending on clean energy, he simply doesn't have the power to move a huge amount of money.