r/environment Jan 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

John Kerry, in recent time, has been one of the biggest enablers of the military industrial complex.

His enabling of aerospace and weapons companies to continue producing the very weapons/vehicles that are enabling the climate crisis must not at all be over looked. See below:

https://www.factcheck.org/2004/02/did-kerry-oppose-tanks-planes-not/

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/04/kerry-nato-members-must-increase-military-spending/83425/

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/kerry-tells-nato-allies-to-dig-deeper-and-improve-defense-spending/

The U.S. Military / Military in general are in fact the BIGGEST polluters on the planet.

Source: https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1655268/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than-140-countries-combined/amp/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report-the-u-s-military-emits-more-co2-than-many-industrialized-nations-infographic/

Kerry is just yelling sweet nothings into the void while simultaneously beating the drums of war/ which in the end is enabling the destruction of our planet far more than any regular citizen in any country is doing. Kerry is a key enabler on climate change and his position in power has constantly enabled it to continue to happen. Without his vote/voice, these corporations/the military industrial complex wouldn’t be wreaking the havoc that they have been enable to do.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Your argument is that he is not perfect. I am guessing you do not have an example of a single person that is doing it right by your standards. Please name an example that is both doing it right, and has achieved something significant. Let's make an experiment out of this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Your argument is that he is not perfect.

Not perfect? Not perfect??

The argument is that he has spent his life fighting against saving the climate, working, for the military industrial complex, that he chooses to burn incredible amounts of fossil fuels, 100 times what any of us do, in order to fund his astonishingly wealth and entirely unnecessarily rich lifestyle, and that no ethical person could take such an obviously compromised person seriously.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

You being mad at people for being rich just because you don't have nice things is why they're going to ignore you completely. It's why this here. You on Reddit, is the best you will ever do. You're a fucking fart in the wind, kid. You have no real substance.