The US Army unveiled a comprehensive climate strategy including moves to lower emissions and build an electric vehicle fleet in the coming years. The Army states that this will help them confront the growing global threat of climate change and enhance safety for soldiers who are already feeling the effects of our warming globe. The […]

As much as I am a fan of electric cars, I own an electric car myself, the problem with the batteries remain … The batteries need to be created in the first place, there are recycling issues and some other problems that comes with them.

Net-Zero is often just a phrase and term used without showing or explaining all variables and issues that comes with the change. I think we need more researchers and actual scientists to resolve the carbon footprint problematic on a bigger level.

    • CHEF-KOCHOP
      21·
      3 years ago

      Will never happen, national security comes always above green, compromise like this are already a solid middle-ground and better than nothing.

      • alex
        1·
        3 years ago

        Currently, it is a higher priority. But I don’t think it should be. Or rather, the ways they attempt to ensure the nation’s security should change.

        Countries don’t need a military or at least not such a developed military. Likewise, the surveillance isn’t a great idea and has many problems, I would argue more problems than benefits.

        Edit: I also don’t know how firing loads of missiles and driving massive tanks can be “net-zero”. Without offsets of course

        • CHEF-KOCHOP
          21·
          3 years ago

          I think the war based military will change anyway entirely to drone and anti weapons missile systems. It is still not what people want but it will shift and possible reduce the current carbon footprint. I said possible because you still need to recycle, or create such system which of course needs energy, resources and there is overall the carbon footprint.

          Totally get your point tho, war systems including instruments like military is something which humanity hopefully will one day overcome and solve their problems on a more civil manner but giving the fact that we cannot even bring everyone to reduce his own carbon footprint shows that we have a long way to go and enforcing from one day to another to get rid of the entire systems that are actually in work, has a history of - it does not work.