This article mentions the extreme energy damage of industrial beef production(rightly) but the extremely extreme energy damage of the military is not. The article is by #MichaelKlare, some sort of energy/fossil-fuel expert and the advertisement next to the text is for his book about the Pentagon. #AmitavGhosh points out that a small-city's yearly energy use is burned up in a day by and aircraft carrier, and hour by a fighter jet. War is the health of the State, death of humanity

[2023]
> ... global elites continue to pursue strategies that will only amplify climate change, ensuring that, in the years to come, humanity will slide ever closer to worldwide collapse.
[1933] (about)
> well-to-do people, though less numerous than they are now, were certainly more civilised... The rich would think it beneath their dignity to have such knowledge, and ignorance has become the hallmark of social eminence.
- https://russell-j.com/MEDITATE.HTM
#MichaelKlare and #BertrandRussel #Elites

#MichaelKlare #TheRaceForWhatsLeft könnte interessant sein.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250023971/theraceforwhatsleft

> .. the world’s ruling elites have chosen to place their #geopolitical rivalries above.. critical concerns.. planetary salvation. As a result, #GlobalWarming is indeed likely to surpass 2 degrees Celsius sometime during this century. It’s a given that almost unimaginable calamities will ensue, including the inundation of major cities, monstrous wildfires, and the collapse of agriculture in many parts of the world.
https://tomdispatch.com/the-ukraine-wars-collateral-damage/
#MichaelKlare #TomDispatch #Climate #GeoPolitics