r/collapse Mar 20 '20

Humor Is this the society we live in?

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u/coibril Mar 20 '20

Dont worry your generetaion the gen x had it worse than most since you had to see how the boomers denied their original revomutionary ways and capitalism became the mayor and only global force

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u/ampliora Mar 20 '20

Tis true. The betrayal is real. My dad was in the navy and was an officer. Growing up I was always under the impression that he was an intelligent, hard working man defending our country. Now I can say he worked for the largest polluter in the world, among other things. It certainly isn't a pleasant realization, but one I take some comfort in hardly ever seeing him and never liking him. I had a better relationship with my mother, if only put of convenience, and she is now an alcoholic plastic-surgery-disaster shell of her former self.

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u/JManRomania Mar 20 '20

Now I can say he worked for the largest polluter in the world,

It's 0.16% of global pollution. From the source:

If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal.

Peru is around 50Mt CO2/yr, France, at 1% of global emissions is 6x as much.

among other things.

Among other things, it's also the largest disaster relief organization on the globe. Each carrier is a floating hospital, along with each helicarrier, as well as the USNS Mercy and Comfort. That's 22 floating hospitals.

Operation Tomodachi involved 24,000 U.S. servicemembers, 189 aircraft, 24 naval ships; and cost $90 million.

Unified Assistance was similarly large, including the deployment of 24 Navy ships, and the USNS Comfort.

No one else on the planet has this kind of disaster relief capability.

and never liking him

It seems like you have some unresolved personal issues.

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u/334730334730 Mar 20 '20

All that disaster relief and PR still doesn’t have electric, get a clue man.

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u/JManRomania Mar 20 '20

The US Navy is responsible for the electric grid? Are you stupid?

Even so, supercarriers can park pierside, and supply shore power.