So, if the Department of Defense wants to address climate change (which is already costing them billions), they must address their own contributions to it. If ranked against nations, the US military would be 47th in global carbon emissions, ahead of hundreds of countries in terms of total emissions. That said, the US military is also a massive polluter. The climate crisis does… Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. In October, the DoD released a Climate Risk Analysis detailing these risks. The Department of Defense has long acknowledged the danger of climate change and importance of addressing it, calling it a “threat multiplier,” which will exacerbate many of the challenges the armed forces have to deal with, and recently acknowledging it as an “ existential threat,” which the DoD needs to act on. The Army states that this will help them confront the growing global threat of climate change and enhance safety for soldiers who are already feeling the effects of our warming globe. The US Army unveiled a comprehensive climate strategy including moves to lower emissions and build an electric vehicle fleet in the coming years.
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