Has anyone ever calculated it exactly?
2007-09-05 14:45:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Way to tie Iraq and 9/11 together, Jello. Even the administration doesn't do that anymore.
The carbon footprint is such a cliche and pop culture way to look at things. The environmental impact of this war, and any war, is staggering.
We are taking planes, ships, and ground vehicles half way around the world to blow up buildings that required natural resources to build. Then we're rebuilding them in inefficient western style ways. Then hanging around angering the locals to the point that they blow something up. Which we then have to rebuild again, and blow something of theirs up to get back at them.
The whole country is like a black hole for natural resources.
And that's not even mentioning the human cost.
2007-09-05 16:47:25 · answer #1 · answered by joecool123_us 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
LOL!!! Thats a funny question!! Many will choke on this one...
But in this case I would be more terrified by the contamination to uranium ammunitions than the carbon... But with all the explosions around and the death body and vegetations that decays (over 100000 humans at least), then I guess its quite high! But irrelevant to help relieved the Iraqi peoples from such conflict...
Also, since the oil is now accessible, it means more carbon in the air... During the embargo, the oil was less likely to produce carbon has it was hard to sell it so less extraction was needed...
2007-09-05 22:15:11 · answer #2 · answered by Jedi squirrels 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
a couple hundred million gallons of jet fuel
burning buildings
bombs
sanitation knocked out - iraqis burn their own trash now
burning oil pipelines
manufacture of up-armor humvee's
manufacture high performance polymers in body armor
ect
it's a big footprint
2007-09-06 10:45:07 · answer #3 · answered by PD 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
um, not personally,
I know it's pretty d@mn big.
btw- i <3 your pix
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2007-09-06 16:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by Beatle-Juice 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Somehow I think it's still less than two 110 story buildings becoming rubble.
2007-09-05 23:33:29 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋