JOIN THE PEACE AND CLIMATE MOVEMENTS!

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JOIN THE PEACE AND CLIMATE MOVEMENTS!
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A little context

• Americas fuel use approx. 20.6 million barrels
  of oil/day ¼ of the worlds oil.
• 40 of that is gasoline for motor vehicles.

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This country pumps a staggering 8 billion pounds
(4 million tons) of carbon into the atmosphere
every day.
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Military Energy Use The numbers are elusive and
enormous!

• Pentagon admits to 144 million barrels of fuel
  per year or 400,000 barrels/day, BUT
• More likely 1 million barrels/day or 365 million
  barrels/year!
• Only fourteen countries exceed that number! As
  much as the whole country of Spain.

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In Context

• The Pentagon is the largest single consumer of
  oil in the world, using enough energy in one year
  to run all the transit systems in the country for
  the next 14 to 22 years. (Barry Sanders, The
  Green Zone)
• It both purchases more light refined petroleum
  than any other single organization in the world,
  and also is the largest single polluter of any
  single agency or organization in the world. (BS)

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The Pollution

• If estimate half as jet fuel, must correct gt 650
  million pounds or 325,000 tons/day or over 100
  million tons/year CO2 equivalent.
• This is about 8 of the nations total carbon
  emissions.

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M-1 Abrams Tank 0.2 mpg or 252 gallons/hr.
Army uses 1800 of them and they require a fleet
of 2,000 support trucks .
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USS Independence Aircraft carrier uses 5,600
gallons an hour 112,000 tons of CO2/hour.
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F-15 1600 gal jet fuel/hr. With afterburners
14,400 gal/hr equivalent to gt 330 tons or
660,000 pounds of CO2 equivalent/hr!
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Principle gas hog award goes to B-52
Stratocruiser uses 3,334 gal/hr STANDARD fuel
use producing 200,000 pounds/hr CO2 equivalent.

• It requires in-air refueling by KC-10 Extender
  aircraft using 2,050 gallons per hour 120,000
  lb or 60 tons CO2 equivalents/hour.

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War, the militarys product!

• In the first three weeks of combat in Iraq, , the
  Army calculated its branch alone required more
  than 40 million gallons of fuel.
• If assume 1/4 was jet fuel 600 million pounds
  of CO2 equivalent.
• Non-jet fuel produced 660 million pounds of CO2.
• 600,000 tons of CO2!

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The meaning of shock awe.
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The Problem

• Even if every person in America decided to stop
  driving today, and even if every polluting
  factory in the country voluntarily shut down its
  operations right now, the land and the animals
  and the water and the air those things that we
  generally include by referring to them as the
  environment would still face a most serious
  assault. And, ironically, that greatest single
  assault on the environment, on all of us around
  the globe, comes from one agency, that one agency
  in business to protect us from our enemies, the
  Armed Forces of the United States. (Barry
  Sanders, The Green Zone)

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parison.aspx
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http//nationalpriorities.org/en/budget-basics/fed
eral-budget-101/spending/
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Proposed Cuts to Pentagon Spending Potential Annual Savings
End the U.S. war in Afghanistan 86 billion
Eliminate one-third of the U.S. military bases in Europe and Asia 10 billion
Eliminate military waste and unnecessary weapon systems Eliminate military waste and unnecessary weapon systems
Drastically reduce the nuclear warhead arsenal as a major step on the path to nuclear abolition 20 billion
Stop RD and procurement of unnecessary weapons 9 billion
Eliminate two active Air Force wings and two carrier groups that are not needed to address current and probable future threats 8 billion
Achieve savings from eliminating inefficiencies to reduce overall military spending, rather than increasing other Pentagon expenditures 28 billion
Scale back outsourcing to military contractors by 15 percent 40 billion
End Foreign Military Financing 5 billion
Total 198 billion/year
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How Many Jobs Can 1 Billion Buy?
Education Health Care Clean Energy
Consumption Military
Source Pollin Garrett-Peltier, 2009
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The Purpose

• The de-facto role of the U.S. armed forces will
  be to keep the world safe for our economy and
  open to our cultural assault. To those ends we
  will do a fair amount of killing.
• -- quote from a former officer at the Pentagon
  in charge of thinking about future warfare in the
  1990s from the military Parameters Magazine,
  excerpted by Susan George of the Transnational
  Institute.

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The vicious cycle burning oil in war for oil.
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Cutting the military and stopping war

• Creates jobs.
• Supports children, the elderly and our economy.
• Stops climate change.

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Its time to unite our efforts.

• The fact is that we cant stop war as long as the
  world economy is dependent on fossil fuels.
• And we cant reverse climate change and build
  sustainable economies unless we stop war.

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