Global Warming and the Iraq War : Climate and Capitalism

Global Warming and the Iraq War : Climate and Capitalism

• # Just the $600 billion that Congress has allocated for military operations in Iraq to date could have built over 9000 wind farms (at 50 MW capacity each), with the overall capacity to meet a quarter of the country’s current electricity demand. If 25% of our power came from wind, rather than coal, it would reduce US GHG emissions by over 1 billion metric tons of CO2 per year – equivalent to approximately 1/6 of the country’s total CO2 emissions in 2006.
• # In 2006, the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy
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