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As per - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-.
by dchichkov 6y ago
As per - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-...
"U.S. military is still the world’s top petroleum consumer and largest carbon polluter. Between 2001 and 2017, the five military branches collectively emitted 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions, twice the annual output of all the passenger vehicles nationwide."
- credit_guy 6y agoSo in 17 years the US military emitted as much as the US passenger vehicles in 2 years? What exactly is their definition of “the world’s largest carbon polluter”?
- adventured 6y agoIf we're talking about large entities as polluters, more realistically China's coal industry is the world's worst carbon polluter by a dramatic margin. The global coal industry is half of all human-sourced CO2 output on the planet and China's coal industry is larger than the rest of the world's coal industry combined. Worst of all, they're aggressively adding a lot more coal plants to their grid.