War: The Number One Source of Carbon The U.S. military is the biggest producer of carbon on the planet. Harvey Wasserman notes that fighting wars more than wipes out any reduction in carbon from the government’s proposed climate measures. Writing in 2009 about the then-proposed escalation in the Afghanistan war, Wasserman said: The war would also come with a carbon burst. How will the massive emissions created by 100,000-plus soldiers in wartime be counted in the 17% reduction rubric? Will the HumVees be converted to hybrids? What is the carbon impact of Predator bombs that destroy Afghan families and villages? The continuance of fighting all over the Middle East and North Africa completely and thoroughly undermines the government’s claims that there is a global warming emergency and that reducing carbon output through cap and trade is needed to save the planet. I can’t take anything the government says about carbon footprints seriously until the government ends the unnecessary wars … all over the globe. So whatever you think of climate change, all people can agree that ending the wars is important. (War also destroys the economy.)
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:55:28 +0000