A few weeks ago Marcy Winograd published an article in Common Dreams 
highlighting the extraordinary contribution the American military makes to global warming.
With approximately 800 military bases scattered around the world, not to mention our numerous ongoing military conflicts, the US military emits as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as a sizeable industrial nation.
Have you been paying attention to the number of major rivers in Europe and
Asia becoming nearly bone dry this summer? I have, and it’s scary.
Nowadays, I can’t help but wonder about the words in Revelation 16:8, “The sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat…”
Below is an excerpt of the article “The Pentagon is Killing Us.”
The dog days of summer are upon us — and the record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of even hotter, more dangerous days unless we address the elephant in the room.
The Pentagon.
As the largest institutional consumer of oil and, therefore, the largest single U.S.
emitter of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG’s), the Pentagon must reduce its carbon footprint of wars and weapons production as well as its boot print — including tens of thousands of troops deployed worldwide at 800 overseas military bases and one under construction on Okinawa.
To avoid the worst of the climate crisis, President Joe Biden, Congress and the public can reject an interventionist foreign policy fueled by the drive for full-spectrum dominance of the air, land, sea and space. Otherwise, we brace ourselves for ever rising sea levels: extreme weather, drought, famine — all of which, according to the World Bank, could result in 143-million climate refugees by 2050.
Brown University’s Cost of War Project reports the Pentagon’s GHG’s exceed those of many industrialized nations, such as Denmark, Sweden and Portugal, with the “War on Terror” alone producing 1,267 million metric tons of GHG’s, the carbon equivalent of a 12-million pound mountain of coal.
One B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing’s long-range bomber, consumes as much fuel in an hour as the average car driver uses in seven years, according to the National Priorities Project.
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