With the Cop27 in the offing we should perhaps have a wee look at some of the biggest polluters on the planet. Though not widely broadcast, but the information is there. Top of the list is the U$A military machine, by far the leader in our demise by climate catastrophe, as well as being a massive profit producers for the shareholders. War and its attendant appendages, apart from the unimaginable misery, death and destruction, is a massive carbon emission producing machine, all for power and profit. The UK military is up their with the big boys when it comes to carbon emissions into the atmosphere. A recent report states that the UK military give well underestimated totals for their carbon emission. This is unacceptable in a world that is facing climate catastrophe. To bring down carbon emissions we have to stop this madness of perpetual wars and their attendant industries. Our survival and the war machines of the various states can't co-exist, it is either the arms industry and wars or our survival. We the people will have to make that decision, the big powerful captains of industry in the destructive capitalist machine are certainly not going to get rid of their milk cow.
The following extract from Declassified UK.
The UK military sector contributed 6.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent to the Earth’s atmosphere in 2017-2018 — the latest year for which all data is available. Of these, the report estimates that the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) total direct greenhouse gas emissions in 2017-2018 were 3.03 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The figure for the MOD is more than three times the level of 0.94 million tonnes of carbon emissions reported in the main text of the MOD’s annual report, and is similar to the emissions of the UK’s vehicle manufacturing industry.
The new report, written by Dr Stuart Parkinson of Scientists for Global Responsibility, finds that Britain’s MOD is “misleading” the public about its levels of carbon emissions.
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