• federalreverse-old
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    31 year ago

    Biden has started going down the road of electricifying the military. But of course, slimming down the military is the kind of holy cow neither mainstream party would touch. We are seeing a quasi-worldwide military push anyway, which is unsurprising in the wider context of missing global climate action.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I was referring to burn pits that I’ve vaguely heard of, feel like they’d still be a pretty large problem

      • federalreverse-old
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        21 year ago

        There’s more important issues than burn pits tbh:

        The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) of fuel annually, an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) of fuel per day. A large Army division may use about 6,000 US gallons (23,000 L) per day. According to the 2005 CIA World Factbook, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 34th in the world in average daily oil use, coming in just behind Iraq and just ahead of Sweden.

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