LovePrevails Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Hey where did this fact that Stefan Molyneux has said a couple of times: "The iraq war goes through as much gasoline in a day as the Indian economy" Most people are very skeptical about this, understandably, and it has never been sourced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGotYou Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 LP, I found these after a little googling but there's no mention of the Indian enconomy. US Military Energy Consumption-Facts and Figures http://www.resilience.org/stories/2007-05-21/us-military-energy-consumption-facts-and-figures US Military Consumption-There's some gems in this one related to pollution. http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/schrinrj.html A report by a Canadian research institute states that the armed forces of the world are the single biggest polluters on the planet. Science for Peace Institute at the University of Toronto found that 10-30 percent of all global environmental degradation can be attributed to military activities. The world's military establishments also use and control vast amounts of land. In the U.S. alone the sum of all land set aside for military use is equivalent in size to the state of Virginia. In 1992, the military in the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan controlled an area equivalent to twice the size of Virginia. The Canadian Research Institute report states, "the military destroys large tracts of the land it is supposed to protect.... Recovery from the effects of some military activities may take thousands of years." In Indiana the U.S. Army closed its severely polluted Jefferson Proving Ground because cleanup was considered too dangerous and costly (it included contamination from Depleted Uranium testing). The University of Toronto report documents the worldwide devastation caused by toxic and hazardous wastes produced by the military. "Globally, the U.S. and Soviet armed forces produce the greatest amounts of hazardous waste," the report said in 1998. The Pentagon, for example, generated 5 times the toxic waste than the 5 largest U.S. chemical companies combined. In the former USSR, there was so much toxic waste put into Lake Karachay that authorities had to cover up the lake with a layer of concrete. In some of these areas in Eastern Europe has groundwater that is contaminated 30 to 50 times allowable levels, particularly around former Soviet military bases. Ten percent of former East Germany has been polluted or ruined, largley by the Soviet military. The Ministry of Oil Defense http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/05/the_ministry_of_oil_defense If we wish to know, we can. An innovative approach comes from Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Princeton University who in April published a peer-reviewed study on the cost of keeping aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf from 1976 to 2007. Because carriers patrol the gulf for the explicit mission of securing oil shipments, Stern was on solid ground in attributing that cost to oil. He had found an excellent metric. He combed through the Defense Department's data -- which is not easy to do because the Pentagon does not disaggregate its expenditures by region or mission -- and came up with a total, over three decades, of $7.3 trillion. Yes, trillion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Molyneux Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 did u check the sources for the video? they're in the underbar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovePrevails Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 did u check the sources for the video? they're in the underbar I can't see them Published on Apr 26, 2013 Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, presents a collection of information detailing the foundational lies, fraudulent claims, unaccountability, failure, environmental, economic and human costs of the decade long Iraq War.Freedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.fdrurl.com/donateBitcoin Address: 1Fd8RuZqJNG4v56rPD1v6rgYptwnHeJRWsGet more from Stefan Molyneux and Freedomain Radio including books, podcasts and other info at: http://www.freedomainradio.comSources: http://www.fdrurl.com/hellFreedomain Radio Facebook: http://www.fdrurl.com/fbFreedomain Radio Twitter: https://twitter.com/freedomainradio [*] Category News & Politics [*]License Standard YouTube License no sources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew79 Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/hell ... no sources Except for the sources link [] (Which shows the claim is from the UK Green Party) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovePrevails Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 lol thanks seems like I'm blind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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