SPECIAL REPORT on EFECTS of WAR DRILLS
CARBON MONOXIDE AND OTHER EMISSIONS
DERIVED FROM WAR DRILLS
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By Murtaza
Hussain September 15 2019
Sep 15, 2019 - It may not come as a surprise that the largest industrial military in
the history of the US. Not only did the war lead to a spike in carbon dioxide emissions through
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Over time, the raging wars abroad and stories about distant
ecological catastrophes have become background noise. Even today, as
genuine disaster stares us in the face, neither subject is the primary focus of
our media or political discourse. Part of this seems to be based on who has suffered so far.
Just as the terrible
burdens of war have fallen mostly on foreign countries — as well as a small,
volunteer military from the United States — the
first stages of the climate crisis have mainly impacted distant
places with brown-skinned populations like Brazil, Bangladesh, the Maldives,
and the Bahamas. As long as the crisis stays away from the mainland
United States, even people who might be saddened by such news seem unwilling to
treat it as an emergency.
Sooner or later, the emergency will
come to our shores. This March, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide
reached a milestone 415 parts per million. To give a sense of what that means,
the last time the atmosphere had that much carbon was 800,000 years ago. At
that time, the South Pole was a temperate zone with forests growing and average
global temperature was 3 to 4 degrees Celsius warmer than today. Sea levels
were 60 feet higher than present levels. Without a drastic push for
net-negative emissions — stopping carbon dioxide emissions and reducing
the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere — WE ARE ON THE WAY TO CREATING A PLANET LIKE THAT. INSTEAD,
NET GLOBAL EMISSIONS ARE RISING.
Ironically, given its own role in helping create this
emergency, the Pentagon happens to be one of the few
redoubts from the climate denialism now gripping the American government.
“The only department in Washington that is clearly and completely seized with
the idea that climate change is real is the Department of Defense,” Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to
Gen. Colin Powell, has
said. The U.S. military is preparing for
a grim future of climate-caused political instability, food shortages, resource
wars, and massive refugee flows.
Yet even these limited efforts have
met pushback from the Trump administration. The
Navy recently KILLED
A TASK FORCE created to study the effects of climate change, undermining a bare-minimum effort to forecast the impact of
rising seas and melting ice caps.
….
[ DOES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WAS
ENVOLVED IN THIS ‘WAR CRIME’? Perhaps the SUPREME
COURT know it ]
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The power of modern science was finally wedded to the
primordial dark side of human nature. The result was the most savagely violent
period in human history. The death tolls can scarcely
be comprehended today, but World War II alone — with its industrial demonology
of tanks, bomber planes, poison gas, and atomic weapons — killed over 70
million people. The war inflicted types of
environmental harm never seen before.
The nuclear blasts at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki gave us our first realistic glimpses of how civilization itself
could end. We eventually staggered out of that
catastrophe. We may now be walking into a far greater one.
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mean that a competitor will immediately come in and open a ... to protecting American corporations'
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