You got a source for that? Quick googling subjects the military emits about as much as Denmark, which would make it 0.6% of overall US emissions. I wouldn’t call that a large portion.
From your own source, the military has been extensively underreporting their emissions for as long as they’ve been keeping track. There’s also the fact that they don’t even try to research into the wider military industrial complex, simply because that would be a nearly impossible task. You’re going off the title of “more than Denmark”, right? This source did the math in reverse. If it were a country, it would be 47th in the world. To say that it isn’t a massive polluter in it’s own right is either completely disingenuous or outright lying.
I’m not saying military ghg emissions aren’t huge, but it’s not a large part of overall US emissions. With the 59 million tones from your source, that means it accounts for about 1.2% of emissions. That’s not small, but it more speaks to just how huge the US’s overall emissions are.
Oh, I see now. I was simply stating “it’s a huge polluter”, and that got interpreted as a large percentage of emissions. It’s a fair interpretation based on my wording though. The real winners are the people that now have multiple sources for the environmental harm caused by the military
You got a source for that? Quick googling subjects the military emits about as much as Denmark, which would make it 0.6% of overall US emissions. I wouldn’t call that a large portion.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012022/military-carbon-emissions/ https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
From your own source, the military has been extensively underreporting their emissions for as long as they’ve been keeping track. There’s also the fact that they don’t even try to research into the wider military industrial complex, simply because that would be a nearly impossible task. You’re going off the title of “more than Denmark”, right? This source did the math in reverse. If it were a country, it would be 47th in the world. To say that it isn’t a massive polluter in it’s own right is either completely disingenuous or outright lying.
I’m not saying military ghg emissions aren’t huge, but it’s not a large part of overall US emissions. With the 59 million tones from your source, that means it accounts for about 1.2% of emissions. That’s not small, but it more speaks to just how huge the US’s overall emissions are.
Oh, I see now. I was simply stating “it’s a huge polluter”, and that got interpreted as a large percentage of emissions. It’s a fair interpretation based on my wording though. The real winners are the people that now have multiple sources for the environmental harm caused by the military