US military is world's single largest consumer of oil, ...Biden...

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    Biden said while he was former President Barack Obama’s vice president he was told by the Joint Chiefs that global warming is the greatest threat facing America.

    “This is not a joke: you know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was? Global warming. Because there’ll be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia, because of the fights over what is arable land anymore.”

    US military is world’s single largest consumer of oil, and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters

    Neta C. Crawford, Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Boston University explains in an article on The Conversation website about the climate change concerns of America’s military.

    The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter


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