[CPEO-MEF] "World's largest polluters"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[I originally identified the U.S. military as perhaps the world's 
largest polluter in 1990. So this is not new news. It's fair to raise 
environmental degradation in questioning U.S. military policy, but key 
elements of this article are dead wrong. Information about the Defense 
Department's legacy of contamination, continuing releases, and energy 
use is readily available. The U.S. military also operates one of the 
world's largest environmental programs, and citizens throughout the U.S. 
have been working for at least two decades to ensure that its activities 
benefit public health and the environment. I find it strange that 
neither of these writers contacted the people who have been part of that 
process. - LS]



U.S. Military world's largest polluters

by Linda Greene
Bloomington Alternative
October 13, 2010

Barry Sanders was methodically recycling and trying to live a "green" 
life in other ways when he had a "flash" of insight, as he put it in an 
interview on Oct. 12 -- that the U.S. military is massively polluting 
the earth.

Sanders looked into the subject and found almost nothing written on it. 
His research taught him that it's nearly impossible to obtain 
information on the Pentagon's contamination of the planet and release of 
climate-changing gases. That information is top secret. In mainstream 
America, no one challenges how the military spends its money or demands 
its accountability -- or even questions the amount of money the Pentagon 
requests. The military always gets what it wants.

Sanders found that cumulatively, whatever individuals do to save the 
planet is almost nothing considering the scope of the U.S. military's 
destruction of the earth.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bloomingtonalternative.com/node/10575

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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