• JohnDClay
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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