The Pentagon is a major CO2 emitter - I would guess mostly from the fuel that they consume. I think I read somewhere that MRAPs get something like 2 miles to the gallon. It would be great if CO2 caps led to constraints on the military wing of the empire.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Naiman wrote: >> If civilian deaths from U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and >> Pakistan were harmful CO2 emissions, people would be arguing that we >> should cap them at a percentage of their current level. > > Don't most weapons emit CO2 when used -- so they're contributing to > global warming? Can the US government afford to buy enough permits to > pollute to allow them to continue the wars? > -- > Jim Devine / "It has always been the prerogative of children and > half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the > half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." -- > Neil Gaiman > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
