Amy Scott
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Mar
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And that's immediate.
And then in the case of this particular region, as you say, it's oil rich, natural gas rich.
Natural gas infrastructure has been targeted and damaged or destroyed.
So what you see is there can be uncontrolled release of the methane.
So then in addition, even longer term, military spending will go up.
Military spending will go up for the direct combatants, and it will increase for those in the region.
And when military spending goes up, military emissions increase.
They're tightly correlated.
And the United States military was already the biggest institutional greenhouse gas emitter in the world, right?
That's correct.
So last year, I'm sorry, well, 2024, which is the most recent year for which we have emissions data,
the emissions profile of the U.S.
military at 47 million metric tons that year was greater than many countries, about the same size as the emissions of countries like Portugal.
But one of the reasons we don't know all of the military emissions of every country in the world is that the United States fought very hard at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in 1998 to exclude mandatory reporting of military emissions.
So we know that
We have either my calculations or other people's calculations of U.S.
military missions going back to 1975, but we don't have every other country's.
But it is safe to say of the United States military that it is the largest military emitter.
and the world.
Many have pointed this out, that this war and also the war in Ukraine and the energy shocks that resulted have only strengthened the case for transitioning away from our dependence on fossil fuels.
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