To start it’s just lovely how the United States military has literally lied about data and skewed things to make them seem like they were only the 47th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, but following a study in 2017 it’s confirmed that for decades it has in fact been the number one greenhouse gas emitter in the world. From toxic waste, jet fuel, large machinery and their famous garbage fires that have recently come under scrutiny due to a class action lawsuit. Point is, the United States Military pollutes a lot and what’s most insane about it is that this waste mostly comes from roughly 1200 military bases that house all of the wasteful production. Yet of these 1200 facilities around the world, it’s estimated that over 900 bases are abandoned and house nothing but chemical waste, old equipment and usually toxic fumes from said waste and previously mentioned ongoing garbage fires. Of course this is ridiculous that only one American institution is the number one producer of carbon emissions, not a giant manufacturing country like China, just the pure wastefulness of the United States military. From a purely environmental standpoint this is a major issue for the rest of the world as climate change becomes more intense and affects more areas of the world. Climate change affects everyone on the planet and it would therefore put it in the best interest of any world leader to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reduce as much waste as possible to limit the damage climate change can do and hopefully buy more time for our survival. Yet here’s the US military just pumping out carbon at an unparalleled rate. For the most part, for no reason! Most waste comes from a lack of proper waste disposal and the insane amount of stock of things like large machinery and oil, things very harmful to produce, that don’t even get used! The United States military has tons of abandoned equipment that never sees the light of day just because the United States is insanely militaristic and has an insane defense budget. It’s no surprise how wasteful the military is given their budget and how they benefit from just storing and wasting all their stuff. To conclude, the United States needs to drastically scale back it’s military and take an environmentally responsible solution to all decommissioned and abandoned military bases/machinery to hopefully make up for the damage done and reduce the United States’ carbon footprint ten fold. This is no longer about national security or some thinly veiled facist regime. This is about making sure our species and infrastructure survive to the next century.
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