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ayeforscotland:

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msexcelfractal:

The US military emitted 640 times as much CO2 as Taylor Swift last year

the entire US military. only 640x worse? holy fuck. the US military employs. more than 640 people. either this is wrong or taylor is on some next level shit

d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r (39m ago) google says the military did ~51 million metric tons in 2023 (roughly as much as all of sweden, it claims) and swift did ~8,300 tonnes in 2022, which works out to roughly 6000x d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r (38m ago) so, probably wrongALT

thx for checkin @d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r

i’ll point out the US military still employs more than roughly 6000 people

The US military employs about 2.86 million people worldwide. That means they generated about 17 tonnes of emissions per person, a figure substantially smaller than Swift’s alone

In fact, you might say that Taylor Swift has personally generated the emissions of 465 members of one of the world’s largest polluters. I wouldn’t say that remotely absolves her

This is like crypto bros defending how much power Bitcoin uses by saying banks leave ATMs on all night.