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Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq
Introduction To say that war is environmentally destructive is to state the obvious. Less obvious, perhaps, are the “hidden” carbon costs entailed in war and military occupation. Recent research has begun to concentrate on the environmental effects entailed in the military use of hydrocarbon fuels for military-grade vehicles, fighter jets, and deployment of troops across the globe (Belcher et al. 2020; Crawford 2022).
Greening national security
Information & Authors Information Published In Science Volume 377 | Issue 6613 23 September 2022 Copyright Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Submission history Published in print: 23 September 2022 Permissions Request permissions for this article.
COP26. Les militaires du monde entier cachent leurs énormes émissions de carbone - Presse-toi à gauche !
Le leadership en matière de changement climatique ne se limite pas à des discours enflammés. Il faut faire face à de dures vérités. Une vérité avec laquelle les gouvernements du monde entier se débattent est l’immense contribution de leurs armées à la crise climatique. 11 novembre 2021 | tiré du site alencontre.org Par exemple, le secrétariat à la Défense des Etats-Unis est le plus grand consommateur institutionnel de combustibles fossiles au monde – et le plus grand émetteur institutionnel.
US Defense largest consumer of fossil fuels - How world’s militaries hide carbon emissions
Two soldiers engulfed in smog | Representational image | Pixabay Climate change leadership requires more than stirring speeches. It means facing up to hard truths. One truth that governments around the world are struggling with is the immense contribution their militaries are making to the climate crisis. For example, the US Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world – and the largest institutional emitter.
How the world's militaries hide their huge carbon emissions Original
Climate change leadership requires more than stirring speeches. It means facing up to hard truths. One truth that governments around the world are struggling with is the immense contribution their militaries are making to the climate crisis. For example, the US Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world – and the largest institutional emitter.
COP26: How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
By Dough Weir, Benjamin Neimark and Oliver Belcher for The Conversation Climate change leadership requires more than stirring speeches. It means facing up to hard truths. One truth that governments around the world are struggling with is the immense contribution their militaries are making to the climate crisis. For example, the US Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world – and the largest institutional emitter.
COP26: How the World’s Militaries Hide Their Huge Carbon Emissions
Transparency Is Vital for Delivering Real Change Western governments, including institutions like NATO, are busy positioning themselves as leaders on the security implications of the climate crisis. Their credibility on climate security, and on climate action more broadly, will be contingent on their willingness to first face up to some difficult truths about their own contribution to climate change. It will also require far more openness and transparency.
how the world's militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
Climate change leadership requires more than stirring speeches, it means facing up to hard truths. One truth that governments around the world are struggling with is the immense contribution their militaries are making to the climate crisis. For example, the US Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world – and the largest institutional emitter.
Why We Can’t Ignore U.S. Military Emissions
Why you can trust us By Benjamin Neimark & Oliver Belcher & Patrick Bigger 3 MIN READ Jul 6, 2019 The U.S. military’s carbon footprint is bigger than 140 countries combined. To seriously address climate catastrophe, we must dismantle its vast infrastructure. The U.S. military’s carbon bootprint is enormous.
The U.S. military is not sustainable
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Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military
REGULAR PAPER Oliver Belcher Corresponding Author E-mail address: oliver.belcher@durham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-8705 Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK Correspondence Oliver Belcher Email: oliver.belcher@durham.ac.uk Search for more papers by this author PDF PDF ShareShare Abstract This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains.
El ejército de Estados Unidos contamina más que 140 países: se impone reducir esta maquinaria de guerra
07/07/201904/07/2019 Las fuerzas militares de los Estados Unidos dejan una huella de carbono inmensa. Al igual que las cadenas de suministro empresariales, utilizan una amplia red mundial de buques portacontenedores, camiones y aviones de carga para abastecer sus operaciones de todo lo necesario, desde bombas hasta ayuda humanitaria e hidrocarburos. Nuestro nuevo estudio calculó la contribución de esta descomunal infraestructura al cambio climático.
Why We Can't Ignore U.S. Military Emissions
The U.S. military's carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks, and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.
US military is a bigger polluter than 140 countries. The war machine has to be shrunk
Representational image of US Army personnel. Source: Pixabay Text Size: The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.
El ejército de Estados Unidos contamina más que 140 países: se impone reducir esta maquinaria de guerra
Las fuerzas militares de los Estados Unidos dejan una huella de carbono inmensa. Al igual que las cadenas de suministro empresariales, utilizan una amplia red mundial de buques portacontenedores, camiones y aviones de carga para abastecer sus operaciones de todo lo necesario, desde bombas hasta ayuda humanitaria e hidrocarburos. Nuestro nuevo estudio calculó la contribución de esta descomunal infraestructura al cambio climático.
US military pollution
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must. -
The US military’s carbon footprint is bigger than as many as 140 countries
The United States military services’ carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change. Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use.
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military - Belcher - - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains. Our geopolitical ecology framework interrogates the material‐ecological metabolic flows (hydrocarbon‐based fuels, water, sand, concrete) that shape geopolitical and geoeconomic power relations.
Must shrink this war machine: US military bigger polluter than 140 nations
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 Benjamin Neimark Oliver Belcher Patrick Bigger | The Conversation Last Updated at June 25, 2019 13:31 IST https://mybs.in/2X6tGlG The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous.
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries - shrinking this war machine is a must
The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change. Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use.
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries - our survival rests on confronting it
The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change. Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use.
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