> If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal.
Peru has 30 000 000 people, Portugal has 10 000 000.
US military has about 2 000 000 people. It is obviously burning much more than average people do.
> - The US X business is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
> If you want to advocate for fighting climate change, it's not a good tactic to alienate the military community.
If you can't criticize people because that's "alienating" then we should go to Mars already, Earth is fucked.
> If you can't criticize people because that's "alienating" then we should go to Mars already, Earth is fucked.
That's how the game a is played, and we end up with grid-lock. Think what you will, but the military community is huge and is not going anywhere. It includes not just your 2 000 000 active military. Add in the veteran community and their extended family, and you get close to 50 000 000 people. Many of those will happily advocate with you for climate action. So long as you don't single them out as scape goats for your goals. Advocate for carbon tax policy etc. and make sure the Military is not exempt from it. Advocate for naval traffic pollution action, and don't exempt the military.
The percentage of pollution produced by military air- or naval- travel as a percentage of regular civilian is minuscule. For every military airplane in the sky, there are thousands of civilian airplanes. The same is true for sea and land transportation.
Peru has 30 000 000 people, Portugal has 10 000 000.
US military has about 2 000 000 people. It is obviously burning much more than average people do.
> - The US X business is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
> If you want to advocate for fighting climate change, it's not a good tactic to alienate the military community.
If you can't criticize people because that's "alienating" then we should go to Mars already, Earth is fucked.