Cartoon for August 24, 2009
Weird how the military is sent in to help people. After all, they exist to break things, right? Yet they were sent to help tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean and Katrina victims in New Orleans...who they shot and shoved into internment camps. Anyway, now it's the environment that the military wants to help.
Labels: Environment
posted by Ted Rall at
12:01 AM
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Truth is stranger than fiction. The Onion ran a spoof article about the military going green. They played up the absurdity of an organization that exists to deliver materials hazardous to human life trying to reduce its environmental impact.
A few days later I a "serious" article in CNN about how the Military would not use fuel derived from tar sands. Apparently refining tar sand into gasoline releases extra CO2. If the military is serious about saving the environment, we could start by not dropping RDX and delpeted uranium on people who have no capacity to harm us. As an added benefit, we'd have to make fewer trips. That would save gas and reduce their carbon footprint.
That last panel made me laugh, atheists get their revenge!
I found this story at Common Dreams, previously published in the NY Times. What I get from the article is that the military views impending threats to the environment as security threats due to the potential that populations will likely be displaced into neighboring areas, creating all kinds of pressure. They're basically looking at riot control options.
One of the things I've noticed is that a lot of the military bases in this country happen to be surrounded by preserved wilderness. I think the military will threaten to turn that area to private developers if the military budget is ever slashed. "If you cut our budget, we will let Walmart bulldoze the forest and kill an endangered toad. So let us practice bombing Muslims or the toad dies!" Lol!
They're right of course. You could theoretically invest in solar and not go to war to secure oil supplies. OTOH if the Nile starts drying up, Egypt and Sudan WILL start killing each other.
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