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How reducing the U.S. military budget would also reduce emissions (grist.org)
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the world’s militaries are responsible for more than double that, at 5.5 percent.

If combined, the world’s armed forces would have the fourth highest carbon footprint, behind India, the U.S., and China.

Yet it’s been maddeningly difficult for researchers to monitor the emissions of militaries, which aren’t required to report these things.

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[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Reducing the US military budget would likely also have the added 'feature' of resulting in Europe being under the thumb of Russia, and Africa, Asia, and South America being under the thumb of China. A large military budget--even if the military isn't used--has the effect of acting as a deterrent. We've already seen that Russia has no qualms about using their military when they think they can get away with it, and China is continually threatening Taiwan (among others).

[–] solo@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me, there are to many "ifs" and assumptions in this hypothesis.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

Nah. He is correct. Though west taiwan currently has internal governmental instability and troubles, they would commit fully to take over taiwan. And play their already big influence in africa and south america even harder

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