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Live: Hundreds march on Parliament demanding climate action
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Yes and Jimmy Saville raised money for charity. :p
Seriously though, I got the impression they were protesting the war on Gaza and the use of environmentally destructive ordinance, not the actual existence of the US Military.
My point was most of their carbon emissions are probably from doing the more useful stuff.
The fact the US military probably pollute in other ways isn't really that relevant to the direct effects of Israel's war in Gaza though.
Here's a quick example of the kind of things people are looking at (this estimate doesn't look at things like forever chemicals and rebuild costs so it's quite a low estimate):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change