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| author | Sjardijn, Martin |
| author_facet | Sjardijn, Martin |
| contents | <p dir="ltr">The reason governments can so easily discuss CO2 reduction while simultaneously dropping bombs is that they have legally placed themselves out of harm's way.</p> <ul> <li> <p dir="ltr">Kyoto (1997): The US demanded (and received) a full exemption for military operations. Military emissions did not have to be reported.</p> </li> <li> <p dir="ltr">Paris (2015): The exemption became less absolute, but reporting remained voluntary.</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">The result? The US Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest institutional consumer of petroleum in the world. If the US military were a country, it would rank somewhere between Peru and Portugal in terms of CO2 emissions. Yet, this remains unaddressed in political rhetoric. They count the solar panels on the barracks roof but ignore the black smoke rising from the bombed oil field.</p> <p> </p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | The Military Blind Spot: Legalized Ecocide Sjardijn, Martin <p dir="ltr">The reason governments can so easily discuss CO2 reduction while simultaneously dropping bombs is that they have legally placed themselves out of harm's way.</p> <ul> <li> <p dir="ltr">Kyoto (1997): The US demanded (and received) a full exemption for military operations. Military emissions did not have to be reported.</p> </li> <li> <p dir="ltr">Paris (2015): The exemption became less absolute, but reporting remained voluntary.</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">The result? The US Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest institutional consumer of petroleum in the world. If the US military were a country, it would rank somewhere between Peru and Portugal in terms of CO2 emissions. Yet, this remains unaddressed in political rhetoric. They count the solar panels on the barracks roof but ignore the black smoke rising from the bombed oil field.</p> <p> </p> |
| title | The Military Blind Spot: Legalized Ecocide |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18985544 |