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U.S. Military Consumption
Ryan Schriner
[email protected] A report by a Canadian research institute states that the armed forces of the world are the single biggest polluters on the planet. Science for Peace Institute at the University of Toronto found that
10-30 percent of all global environmental degradation can be attributed to military activities. The world's military forces also use up enormous amounts of environmental and human resources while they use huge amounts of energy.
The Pentagon is the largest single consumer of petroleum in the the world. Some figures show that
the U.S. military uses enough oil in one year to run all of the U.S. transit systems for the next 14-22 years. In less than one hour a U.S. F-16 fighter jet uses twice as much fuel as the average U.S. auto driver. One-quarter of the world's jet fuel is consumed by the world's military. And worldwide the military consumption of copper, nickel, aluminum and platinum exceeds that of the Free World.
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The University of Toronto report documents the worldwide devastation caused by toxic and hazardous wastes produced by the military. "Globally, the U.S. and Soviet armed forces produce the greatest amounts of hazardous waste," the report said in 1998.
The Pentagon, for example, generated 5 times the toxic waste than the 5 largest U.S. chemical companies combined. In the former USSR, there was so much toxic waste put into Lake Karachay that authorities had to cover up the lake with a layer of concrete. In some of these areas in Eastern Europe has groundwater that is contaminated 30 to 50 times allowable levels, particularly around former Soviet military bases. Ten percent of former East Germany has been polluted or ruined, largley by the Soviet military.
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"If we look at the five nuclear powers, we find that the nuclear legacy has not only consumed scarce resources but also massively polluted the land and sea, undermined health, doubled the rate of damaged genes in the human gene pool, and seriously reduced resource productivity over vast stretches of land and sea.
Should nuclear weapons be used, life as we know it would cease. Because of its dependence on the civilian economy, the military both lies about the lethal nature of its inventions and tries to create commercial uses for them. Militarism has become a self-destructive, all-encompassing addiction for some of our fellow humans, and the rest of us are passive cooperators with that addiction. Rousing ourselves from that cooperative lethargy is our first priority for disentangling ourselves from the seduction! Money and social approval must be withdrawn from these enterprises, and our focus must change to conserving the planet Earth and securing its viability"
MoreThe PNACers are destroying the world they want to dominate so much!
EVEN IF they really believe in "The Rapture" - they will all end up dead like everyone else, a pile of ashes if cremated,
or just eaten away by maggots like the rest of us.
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