Do you know that if military emissions were a country, they’d be the world’s 4th largest polluting nation, creating more CO2 than Russia?
Last year, militaries sent over 2,700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It gets worse, because these figures exclude the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine!
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Last year, militaries sent over 2,700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It gets worse, because these figures exclude the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine!
#CO2 #emissions #wars #gaza #ukraine #palestine #conflicts #globalwarming #climatechange #climate
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00:00Let's talk about the military carbon boot print. The fact is militaries hurt the environment
00:06Some studies suggest they account for nearly 6% of greenhouse gas emissions
00:12Militaries need massive amounts of energy for their bases and drills
00:16They also rely on energy guzzling manufacturers which produce their equipment at it all up and last year
00:23military sent over
00:252,700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide
00:29into the atmosphere how much is
00:322,700 million metric tons. It's 85% of emissions from all passenger cars across the planet and
00:40If military emissions were a country, they'd be the world's fourth largest polluting nation
00:46Creating more co2 than Russia. It gets worse because these figures exclude the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine
00:54Reports suggest as much as
00:57590,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide
01:00May have been released during the first four months of Israel's offensive
01:04Analysts say that could climb to 54 million metric tons when Gaza is rebuilt
01:10Things aren't much better in Ukraine. That conflict has produced about
01:15175 million metric tons of carbon dioxide
01:19Fuel for Russia's military makes up nearly 35 million metric tons
01:24Experts have tried to measure the social cost of pollution
01:28So for example, they would look at health problems linked to the environment then figure out how much that costs in dollar terms
01:36They say each ton of carbon dioxide comes at a social cost of
01:41$185 that means in
01:442023 the social cost of the world's militaries was a staggering 500 billion dollars
01:58You