Comment by KetoManx64
17 hours ago
Right after we have a social stigma for people that keep voting to have the government involved in every bit of their lives.
17 hours ago
Right after we have a social stigma for people that keep voting to have the government involved in every bit of their lives.
How about when the market fails customers, still no government involvement? Food and drugs regulation, environment stuff (you are here) and so on?
The US military-industrial complex is the single largest institutional hydrocarbon consumer and greenhouse gas emitter on the planet. It would be pretty stupid for me to listen to the government's advice about how best we should preserve the environment.
So the issue is under regulation, yeah, agree on that point.
Sounds like the only reasonable solution to the problem you raide is that the part of our government that's responsible for defense should be put under the seperate part that is responsible for protecting our environment instead of being exempt. I can't see any other real way of resolving that issue can you?
China has been the largest ghg emitter for the last 20 years, and currently emits more than twice as much as the us. Gdp spent on defense is similar as a fraction of gdp (slightly more in the us). So realistically the Chinese military is by far a larger emitter of ghg than the us military.