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by lsllc 5y ago

https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-2408760609.html https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060... https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-world-leader-pollution-and-wasteful-use-fossil-fuels https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h... https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report-the-u-s-military-emits-more-co2-than-many-industrialized-nations-infographic/?sh=6ae70c584372 https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...

gruez 5y ago
>https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060 https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060... The headline does not seem to be supported by the article, which mainly consists of various pollution figures for the US military but lacks comparison to other entities. The closest it gets to that is saying the US military produces "more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined". Overall it makes a convincing case that the US military is a large polluter, but not that it's "World’s Biggest Polluter". >https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w... It's a blog for a coop chain. A skim of the article reveals the same problem as the previous: lots of facts and figures about how much the US military pollutes, but not many comparisons required to make the claim that they're the largest. >https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h... >https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report... Both seem to focus on the US military producing more co2 than many countries. I'm not sure how this is supposed to support the claim that they're the biggest polluter. The bay area probably produces more co2 than "many countries" (eg. Liechtenstein and Tonga), but that doesn't mean they're the biggest polluter in the world.
- spats1990 5y ago
  try this (PDF d/l): https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pentagon%20Fuel%20Use%2C%20Climate%20Change%20and%20the%20Costs%20of%20War%20Revised%20November%202019%20Crawford.pdf https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pe... "...the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent." "World's largest institutional user of petroleum" is both more precise and pretty damning.

by lsllc 5y ago

gruez 5y ago

>https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060 https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060... The headline does not seem to be supported by the article, which mainly consists of various pollution figures for the US military but lacks comparison to other entities. The closest it gets to that is saying the US military produces "more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined". Overall it makes a convincing case that the US military is a large polluter, but not that it's "World’s Biggest Polluter". >https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w... It's a blog for a coop chain. A skim of the article reveals the same problem as the previous: lots of facts and figures about how much the US military pollutes, but not many comparisons required to make the claim that they're the largest. >https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h... >https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report... Both seem to focus on the US military producing more co2 than many countries. I'm not sure how this is supposed to support the claim that they're the biggest polluter. The bay area probably produces more co2 than "many countries" (eg. Liechtenstein and Tonga), but that doesn't mean they're the biggest polluter in the world.

spats1990 5y ago
try this (PDF d/l): https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pentagon%20Fuel%20Use%2C%20Climate%20Change%20and%20the%20Costs%20of%20War%20Revised%20November%202019%20Crawford.pdf https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pe... "...the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent." "World's largest institutional user of petroleum" is both more precise and pretty damning.